O Israel return to the Lord, for thou hast faln by thine iniquity, Hos. 14. and art at a distance from thy Maker, remember from whence thou art faln, and return, now the Lord is calling upon all people, in all places to return from the evil of their doings, that he may have mercy upon them, Rev. 2.5 14, 15, 1 [...] all people whose minds are yet in the earth, and are delighting in vanities, you are faln from your ma­ker, Isa. 55.6, Isa. 19. and are hewing to your selves broken cisterns, that will hold no water, forming up wayes of wor­ships, according to your imaginations, and so wor­ships the work of your own hands, Isa. 29.1 delighting in [Page 2]them, [...] 2.22. O cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of? All mans teach­ing is vain, and it doth exalt and feed the fleshly man, [...]l. 5.19, 21. and keeps that alive which must be destroyed, and it leads to vanity it self, the fruit of it is made manifest; Israel after the flesh, are not the people of the onely true God, [...]l. 4. [...] &c. [...]. 26.7, [...]. it is Israel after the spirit of that the Lord delights in, he makes his abode with the sons of men, he is purifying their hearts, that he may have an holy people, to place his name in, the Lord is now leading Israel to his chosen ones, [...]. 66.1, 2, through the sea of troubles, and persecutions, to bring them into the wilderness out of all the earthly delights, [...]or. 6.16 [...]v. 2.8, 9, [...], 11. [...]. 28.9. and earthly vanities, to win them from all the worlds wayes, and worships, and customes, and fashions, and delights, and outside teachings of men, that he alone may be their teacher himself, as he led Israel after the flesh out of Egypt, from under proud hard-hearted Pharaoh, [...] 31.34. [...] 54.13. [...]b. 8.10, which was an oppressor, and kept them in bondage, that they could not serve him, till he had them out of Egypt, through the sea into the wilderness, where the Egyptians could not come, [...]oh. 2.27. [...]h. 14.26. [...]o. 14. [...], &c. but as they pursued hard after them, they was destroyed, and could not come o­ver the sea to them, where the Lord had carryed them, there to make to make his love manifest to them; there the Lord did teach them, and gave them a law to walk by, and made a Covenant with them, which covenant they broke, and forgot the mercies of the Lord, which he had made manifest to them in a large measure, [...]o. 15. [...]. 47. &c. [...]. 48.1, 2. [...]. 59. cap. [...]. 1.21, [...], 23, 24. and a carnal part go [...] up in them after they had back slided and faln from their maker, and then oppression got up amongst them, and pride, and they then ground the faces o [...] of the poor, and lived in lust and excess, and for­got to execute true Judgement and Justice among the people, and the Lord saw it, and it did greatly [Page 3]displease him; and he sent his true Prophets to cry out against them; Hos. 8. [...] & 9 1, 2. Hos. 14.1 [...] Isa. 3.11 12, 13, 1 [...] 15, &c. Isa. 3.17 &c. and to tell them that they had faln from their maker, O Israel return, return saith the Lord, why do ye grinde the faces of the poor? because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and walk with stretched out necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will smite with a scab, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, and will discover all their secret parts. The Judge­ment of the Lord was to come upon them, except they did return from the evil of their doings; Isa. 28.1, for so long as they were kept in the fear of the Lord, it caused them to walke humbly before the Lord, Deut. 10 12, 13, 1 [...], 15, &c. Heb. 8.13 and they kept his statutes, and his ordinan­ces, which he had committed to them; he gave them a law to walk by, and made a covenant with them, in which covenant they had many priests; and these priests was to offer up sacrifice, and they was to do it without money, Heb. 7.2 [...] 27, 28. and the people they was to bring of the best, the pure and the clean, and they was to bring it in freely to be offered up in sac­rifice: in bringing the best, they brought their hearts with them; the preists offering it up without money, was a figure of Jesus Christ, being the Saints high priest, to offer up their sacrifice to the father freely: Numb. 28. & 29. ch [...] Heb. 7.23 &v. 24, & [...] Heb. 9.8, 9, 10, 11, 12 &c. Heb. 9.13 [...] Heb. 9.18 19, 20. Heb. 9.14 15. and the people bringing it in freely, and of the best, the pure, and the clean, was a figure of Jesus Christ, laying down his life freely: and as the life of the creature was to be sacrificed up, for the purifying of the flesh, the blood of the covenant, which could not make him that offered it up clean, as touching the consci­ence, was a figure of Jesus Christ being to be sacri­ficed up, and his blood to be shed for the purifying of the conscience: Jesus Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God the Father, was for the purification of the inward parts, and in [Page 4]the first covenant which was outward to the Je [...] ­outwardly; Chron. [...].22, &c. Chron. 1. Acts 47, 48. Cor. 6.19. Cor. 6.16, [...]. Exod. [...].16. [...]xo. 18.19, [...]0, 21, 22. [...]ev. 19.15. [...] verl. 20. [...]eut. 1.16, [...]7, 18. [...]eut. 16. [...]8, 19, 20. [...]xod. 23.8 Chro. 19. [...], 6, 7, 8. [...]sa. 33.22. [...]eb. 12.23 [...]am. 5.9. [...]eut. 14. [...]7, 28, 29. [...]en. 17. [...]0, 11. Deut. 10. [...]6, 17. Col. 2.11. [...]sa. 56.2. [...]sa. 58.13, [...]4. Numb. [...]5.32. Heb. [...] 9.10. mat. [...]2.8. Mark. [...].27, 28. when they was come into the Inhab [...] ­ted places, they was to build a temple, which tem­ple was a figure of Jesus Christ, and the Saint (being the true temple) of the living God; and the first covenant, they had Judges outwardly, an [...] they was to be such men as feared God, and hated [...] ­vetousness; and they was to Judge the people at [...] seasons, and they was not to be partial in Judge­ment, but to hear the cause of the poor, as well [...] the great, and they was to plead the cause of th [...] poor and the needy, and to Judge righteously b [...] ­twixt a man and his neighbour, and they was to [...] it freely, and not to take neither gifts nor reward for gifts and rewards blinded the eyes of the wi [...] and that was a figure of the Lord being the Judg [...] of the Jew inwardly himself: and in the first con [...] ­nan [...] they was to pay tythes, and they was to fee the poor, the widdows, the fatherless, and [...] strangers with them, and to satisfie such as was [...] want, that there might be no begger in Isra [...] that the Lord might be praised, and glorified [...] them: in this first covenant, which was outward they was to be circumcised, which was a figu [...] of the Circumcision which was to be with [...] hands; and in the first covenant, they had a Sa [...] ­bath outwardly, Exod. 31.13, 14. A figure of th [...] true Sabbath, which the Saints should enjoy [...] ­wardly: and in this Sabbath they was not to sp [...] their own words, nor think their own thoughts, neith [...] to carry any burden, not so much as gather sticks; [...] that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, was ston [...] to death. Now so long as they did abide in covenan [...] and walked in obedience to the Lord, the Lord bl [...] ­sed them, and made his love known unto them; [...] when they did transgress, and broke the covenan [...] the Lord sent his servants the prophets, to crye [...] [Page 5] [...]gainst them, and tell them of their transgressions: [...]ee Isa. 1. Chap. The vision of Isaiah the son of [...]mos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, Isa. 1. cha [...] [...] the dayes of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki­ [...]h, kings of Judah. The Lord had opened their con­ [...]itions to his servant the prophet, and sent him to [...]he heads of them, to declare unto them their trans­ [...]ressions; see vers. 2. Hear O heavens: He called [...]pon the heads of them first, Isa. 1.2, 3 4. then he called to the [...]eet, All sorts of people; give ear, O earth: this was the [...]eople that the Lord had made choice of, and gave [...]hem Statutes and Ordinances to observe, and to [...]alk by, but when they waxed full and rich, their [...]earts ran after their riches, they made their riches [...]heir gods, and forgot the Lord their Maker, and [...]id not abide in his covenant, but rebelled against [...]him; Thus saith the Lord, I have nourished and [...]rought up children, and they have rebelled against [...]e. This was the people that the Lord had mani­ [...]ested his love unto, in such a large manner, as he [...]id, in bringing them out of Egypt, where they had been kept in such bondage under Pharoah: and by [...]is mighty power and out-stretched arme, he brought them forth, and slew all their first born in Egypt, and brought his people to the sea-side, and there he renewed his love to them againe, and made his power known in suffering the Egyptians, Pharaoh, and his host to pursue them thither, and there he kept them safe: when they had neither wall nor bulwark to defend them, Exod. 14 [...] 18, 19, 20 [...] 21, 22, 23 [...] 24, 25, &c. but the Lords own presence; and when they saw no way of deliver­ [...]ance, then did the Lords love and mercy, power, and goodness, appear wonderfully in making way [...]or them to escape from their hands; he led them through the sea, where he kept them safe; and the Egyptians assaying to follow them, was all drowned. Here the Lords love and power was much manifest­ed to them in their deliverance out of the hands of [Page]their enemies; and that which was salvation [...] them, was destruction to the enemies. Now wh [...] they had tasted so largely of the love of the Lor [...] they yet afterwards revolted, and looked back, [...] brought them into the wilderness, there to [...] them; and he gave them Statutes and ordinan [...] to walk by, and made a covenant with them, th [...] they did abide in it, and observe what he co [...] ­manded them, they should have the full enjoym [...] of his love; in this covenant their priests was to o [...] [...] up the sacrifice without money, the people was [...] bring it in freely of the best, the pure and the clea [...] and their Judges was to judge the people freely, [...] was to be done freely, and there was not to be a be [...] ­ger among them, now so long as they stood in the [...] of the Lord, he blessed them, and did largely ma [...] his love known unto them; whilst they was in [...] wilderness, for fourty yeers together, and the Lo [...] kept them there, to humble them, and prove th [...] and try what was in their hearts, Deut. 8. ch. whether they w [...] keep his commandments or no, and there he humb [...] them, and suffered them to hunger, and fed th [...] with Manna, which they knew not, neither [...] their fathers know, that he might make them [...] know him, and depend upon him alone, and to [...] them know that man doth not live by bread alone, [...] by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of G [...] their raiment waxed not old, for fourty yeers tog [...] ­ther, when they was in the wilderness, neither [...] their feet swell; there was his love much manife [...] ­ed to them, that they might know the love of th [...] Lord to them, and there the Lord did forewa [...] them to be mindful of his covenant with them, to b [...] obedient to him, when they came into the land th [...] he did promise to them, lest when they came i [...] it, where there was fulness of all things, that the they should forget him, and turn aside. Read [...] [Page 7] [...]e eighth Chapter of Deuteronomy through, and see [...]he Lords own counsel to them, before they came [...]to the promised land, a good land, a land of [...]rooks, and of Water, of Fountaines, and Depths, [...]hat spring out of Vallies, and Hills, a land of [...]heat, a land of Wine, of Barley, and Figgs, Deut. 8. v▪ 11, 12, 13, 14, v. 15. and [...]omegranates, a land of Oyle-Olive, and Honey, [...]land where they was to eat bread without scarce­ [...]ess, where there was no lack of any thing: Now [...]e the counsel of the Lord to them, after he had [...]omised to bring them into such a good land, out [...] the wilderness, where was a terrible place of firy [...]erpents, and Scorpions, and drought, where there [...]as no water, saith the Lord, Beware that thou for­ [...]et not the Lord thy God, when thou art come into that [...]ood land, in not keeping his commandments & his judge­ments, and his statutes, which he had commanded them, [...]est, saith he, when thou art full, and hast built goodly [...]ouses, and dwell therein, and when thy Herds and Flock [...]re multiplyed, and thy silver and gold is multiplyed, Vers. 14. and [...]ll that thou hast is multiplied, and then thy heart be lifted [...]p, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which hath done so [...]reat things for thee. See Deut. 8. ch. from v. 15. to the [...]nd, what great things the Lord did for them; yet notwithstanding, when they came in to the promised [...]and, where there was such fulness, they forgot the Lord, that had done so great things for them.

And see if this be not the condition of England, now [...]t this present: but when they backslided from the Lord, he sent his servants the prophets to cry out against them, Isa. 1.2. vers. Hear, O heavens, Isa. 1.2. and give ear, O earth, saith the Lord by his servant the prophet, I have nourished and brought up a people, and they have rebelled against me. The Oxe and the Ass doth condemne them; Vers. 3. he brings the brute beasts as [...]ritnesses against them: saith he in the 3. verse, The Oxe knows his owner, and the Ass his masters Crib, but [Page 8]Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider [...] have nourished and brought up children, Isa. 1.4, 5, 6. [...]sa. 2.7, 8. [...]sa. 3.9, 10, 11, 12, 12, &c. and they [...] rebelled against me: Ah sinful Nation, a people la [...] with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are [...] ­rupted, they have forsaken the Lord, they have prov [...] the holy One of Israel, they are gone away backw [...]. The people was grown proud and haughty: [...] Chap. 3. pride is got to the height: is it not so [...] amongst those that are the greatest professors he [...] in England, at this time? and it doth greatly [...] please the Lord: he hath sent forth his servanu [...] cry▪ out against it, now, as he did then. Israel, af [...] they had backslided from the Lord, oppression a [...] cruelty got up among them, their hands was full blood, and their fingers full of iniquity; as is no [...] they offered up abundance of sacrifice, yet saith [...] Lord, Who hath required that at your hands? how [...] the beautiful City become an harlot? Isa. 1.21, 22. it was so then, [...] it not so now? that which makes a profession [...] truth, and doth not practise it, is so now: back [...] ­ed and gone out of the way, pride is out of the wa [...] yet proud men makes a profession of love to Go [...] and Christ, Prov. 6.16, 17, 18, 19. but it is now found to be hypocri [...] and wo, and misery is their portion: wo to the pro [...] and haughty ones, Isa. 28.1. Isa. 59. ch. Jer. 5.28. Isa. 1.23. Mica. 3.11. Isa. 1.21, 22, 23. Isa. 59.7, 8, 9. & v. 13, 14, 15. Zeph. 3.1, 2, 3, 4. Mal. 3.15. pride is an abomination to t [...] Lord, and the divel he is the king of pride; E [...] ­land now swells with pride, and haughtiness, a [...] cruelty, and oppression, and grinding the faces [...] the poor, and no justice nor judgement is exe [...] ­ed in the land, the Lord is sore displeased at it; [...] it was with Israel after the flesh, so is it with Eng­land now, saith the Lord to them by the prophe [...]. How is the beautiful City become an harlot! it was f [...] of judgement; righteousness did lodge in it, [...] now murderers; It was so then, but is it not so now where the Lord hath discovered, and laid op [...] the deceits of the people, to any of his ferva [...] [Page 9]now, as he did to Isaiah, and sent them to cry out [...]gainst them, they have some of them beaten, and [...]me of them stoned, and some of them imprisoned, [...] a Popish law, and doth not give them so much [...]ave, as theeves and robbers, but shuts them up [...]ose by a popish law, and professeth themselves to [...] Christians; Acts 3.18, 19. Acts 4.1, 2, 3, vers. 6. to the 22. Act. 5.11, 16, 17. ver. 25. to the 34. Act. 7.51, &c. Act. 17.5, &c. Act. 18.12, &c. Mat. 5.39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48▪ Rom. 12.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21▪ Hos. 6.9. Joh. 3.15. Mat. 23.10 to the end of the Chap. Luk. 11.46 to vers. 53 but now they are made manifest to [...] of that generation that persecuted the servants [...]f the Lord, and are of the generation of Cain, [...]nd are no Christians, but enemies to Jesus Christ: [...]either Christ, nor the Saints of God ever perse­ [...]ted or imprisoned any, but was persecuted and [...]prisoned, and by those that made the greatest [...]rofession of love to God, but was the greatest [...]nemies to the truth of God, as it is now, Joh. 8.40. [...]ain was a persecuter from the beginning, and where [...]ersecution is now, it is from Cains generation, for [...]esus Christ said to his, Love your enemies, bless them [...]hat curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray [...]or them that despitefully use you, that ye may be chil­ [...]ren of your heavenly Father, for if ye love them that [...]ove you, what reward have you, do not Publicanes so? [...]ut I say unto you, Love your enemies, and if thine enemy [...]unger, feed him; If he thirst, give him drink; and who o [...]ver shall smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also. Resist not evil, but abstaine from all ap­pearance of it, and do unto all men as ye would they should do unto you. Now he that abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, is a Divel: Christ never perse­cuted; he that professeth love to Christ, and acts contrary to him, is Antichrist; and so is an enemy to Christ, devourers and murderets; the truth is imprisoned by the laws, and may not be suffered to speak, and all manner of evil is freed, and at li­berty: pride is at liberty, covetousness at liberty, envy at liberty, lying, and swearing, and drunken­ness at liberty; because of oaths the land mourns; Christ Jesus is imprisoned, and Barabbas set free, as [Page 10]it was, Hos. 4.2, 3. Isa. 1.23. Jer. 5.28, 29. Jer. 7.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Jer. 5.30, 31. Mica. 3.11. Jer. 23.16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 2 Chron. 19.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Isa. 56.10, 11. it is; thy princes are rebellious, and compa [...] of theeves, saith the Lord by his prophet, t [...] children of Israel: Isa. 1.23. Every one loveth and followeth after rewards, they judge not the f [...] less, neither doth the cause of the poor come unto [...] Is it not so now? the same deceits that was the [...] now; the priests they preach for hire, which is abomination to the Lord, the false prophets did, the true prophets never did, but was sent to out against them. After that the children of Is [...] had revolted, and backslided, then they broke covenant of the Lord that he had made with th [...] the priests was to do what they did without mon [...] but when they did not, the Lord was displeased [...] them, and the Lord sent to cry out against the See Isa. 56.10, 11. His watchmen ore all blind, [...] and rewards had blinded their eyes, and they l [...] every one for his gaine from his quarter, The [...] teachers did so then, do they not so now? e [...] one looks for his gaine from his quarter, and wh [...] they are. Isaiah was a true prophet of the Lord, [...] as he had received freely of the Lord, he spoke f [...] to them again: and said, Ho every one that thirst [...] ome and receive freely, without money or price: Is [...] was a true prophet of the Lord, Isa. 55.1, 2. and was sent to [...] out against the false prophets; and he did not l [...] for any gaine, Joh. 1. Isa. 29.23, 24. Joh. 6.8. 1 Cor. 1.27, 28, 29. 2 Cor. 6.7, 8, 9, 10. Rev. 3.9, 10, 11, 12, 13. but as he had received freely, spoke freely again: Isa. 55.1, 2, 3. Where the sa [...] light of God is made manifest now, It sees the sa [...] deceits amongst the false teachers in England, he did among the false teachers in Israel, and sent by the Lord to cry against them; but the di [...] is more subtil now, then he was then; he is un [...] finer habit of profession, and he hath a guard defend him, he hath got great strength, by [...] ting off the Popes head, and sets it to defend [...] by, that if any come to speak against his deceit [...] [Page 11] [...]ath the Popes law to lay hold on him by, 1 Mary 2. Asserti on 3. Chap. But see first of Eliz. 2. Cha. last clause. Sir Niche­las Hides cited that it was repeal­ed, Dolt. 103.104. p. Rev. 17.7, 8, 9, 80, 11, &c. Rev. 22.11, 12. Rev. 19. ch. Rev. 21. to the 8. & v. 22. to the end. Joh. 10.1. Jer. 23.30, 31. Hos. 6.9. 1 Joh. 3.15. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Isa. 1.28. Isa. 48.16. Jer. 5.30, 31. Rev. 18.1, 2, &c. and [...] a prison to put him into, and so he is safe; the beast sits acting there, as in a stage-play for [...]ey, and if any be sent by the Lord to speak a­ [...]st him, when he hath done, though the Parlia­ [...]t professed so much love to Christ, that he might [...] a little time, to speak after the beast had done, [...]he stage-players are so cunning, and had train­ [...]p their schollers so much, that there is a combi­ [...]on among them all, to uphold the kingdome [...]ntichrist still, that speak when he hath ended play; and he calls upon his followers to take away, and saith he makes an uproare, and so he very way armed against the Lord, and hath the [...]ices to take his part, and will not suffer the truth [...]e declared: But the Lord is coming in power, [...]verturn all powers, but his own, and he alone [...] rule and raign for ever, and ever, and nothing [...]st stand but his own pure being, Zeph. 3.8, 9. All [...]eits, and deceivers, and theeves, and robbers, [...]st be cast out, into the lake that burneth, he will [...] have a deceitful person to dwell in his house, [...]y with all deceivers, the Lord is coming to judge, [...] avenge himself upon all. Jeremiah he was a true [...]phet of the Lord, and he was sent to cry out a­ [...]nst the false ones: See Jer. 5. A horrible and a [...]y thing is committed in the land; the prophets pro­ [...]y falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, [...] the people love to have it so: It was so then, but is not so now? and the Lord sent to cry against [...]m, and so doth he now. Down with them, down [...]h them; the day of vengeance is coming upon [...]h them, and all that holds them up, except we [...] repent, and turn to the Lord speedily, Isa. 55. [...]7.

Oh England, England, repent, and turn to the [...]rd, sit down in dust and ashes, the day of the [Page 12]Lord is coming upon thee, to judge thee, and his power known upon the heads of it, except speedily return, and meet the Lord, by yielding [...] dience to him. Down with all oppression; the [...] of the poor of England, is entred into the ears [...] Lord of Sabbaths, the sins of England do test [...] [...] gainst their face, iniquity is at height, ready [...] cut down to the ground. England, England day of the Lord is come upon thee; hear yet [...] Heads and Rulers, the Lord hath a contro [...] with you; he looketh for judgement and j [...] but behold cruelty and oppression; he will re [...] all the righteous blood that is spilt at your ha [...] you kill and slay the righteous ones of the Lord is sent to testifie against your deceits; now you all be left without excuse, he hath sent bo [...] high and low, to forewarme them, and this is to [...] O heads, it is required at your hands to have [...] Justice, and to have heard the cause of the [...] and to have seen that true Justice and Judge [...] had been executed; but behold nothing but [...] ty and oppression: you have imprisoned the [...] and suffered it to be trodden under foot, and witnesses lies slaine in the streets by you: Ah, b [...] the Lord, I will ease me of mine enemies, and [...] me of my adversaries. Ye say as the children [...] rael did, after they had backslided, and broke [...] covenant of the Lord, as they did to whom the [...] phet Micah was sent to cry against, Prophecy ye say they to them that prophecy; so say you [...] and shuts up and imprisons some, and beateth stoneth others, and suffers it to be so by your [...] and will not let the truth declare it self unto y [...] but saith the Lord, Arise and depart, for this i [...] your rest, because it is polluted, it shall destroy y [...] [...] ven with a sore destruction, Mica. 2.10, 11, 12, 13. Mich. 2.10, 11, 12, Hear this, Oh heads of England, Is it not for [Page 13] [...] know Judgement, who hate the good, Mic. 3.1, 2, 3, 4. [...] Isa. 28.1. Mic. 2.1, 2, &c. Isa. 38. Isa. 59.8. Hos. 9.7. Mic. 3.9, 10 Hos. 13.6, 7, 8. Mic. 3.11. 1 Thes. 5.2, 3. 2 Thes. 1.7, 8, 9, 10. and love [...]e evil? Now you are full, pride swelleth amongst [...]u, which is odious in the eyes of the Lord: [...]ur sins testifie against you, covetousness abounds [...]ongst you, cruelty and oppression swells, the [...]nd mourns because of oppression, the Lord look­ [...] down from heaven upon it, and he is sore dis­ [...]eased at you all, even all the heads of England, [...]at abhor judgement, and pervert equity, who [...]ild up Sion with blood, slayes the righteous ones, [...] your laws, the heads thereof judge for rewards, [...]d the priests thereof teach for hire, and lean upon [...] Lord, and say, Is not the Lord amongst us? and e­ [...] cannot come upon us: but when ye cry peace, peace, [...]n cometh sudden destruction from the Almighty, and [...]yeth all the unjust.

Many great deliverances hath the Lord given to [...]is nation, never like to any but Israel; and af­ [...]r all these large deliverances, his mercy is forgot [...]d his grace is turned into wantonness; and haugh­ [...]ess, and many large promises have been made [...]e after time, that this nation should be free [...]om tyranny: and never the like was seen in any [...]tion, professing Christianity: but here is nothing [...] all performed, but a second beast is set up, worse [...]en the first, and all the world wonders, and wor­ [...]ips the beast, but those who have found their [...]mes written in the book of life; and the beast [...]akes war with the Saints, Rev. 17.8, 9, 10, 11, &c. Vers. 14. Rev. 14.9, 10, 11. Isa. 29.13, 14. Mat. 16.21▪ but the Saints shall [...]vercome, and the beast, and beastly worship shall [...]e cast into the lake that burneth, and they shall [...]ve no rest day nor night, that worship the beast [...]d his Image, and that receive the mark of the [...]east: all the worship of the world is beastial, wor­ [...]iping the work of their own hands, and the priests [...]e the greatest enemies to Jesus Christ now, when [...]e is appearing in Spirit, as they was, when he came [Page 14]in the flesh, Mat. 21.15, 16. ver. 23. Mat. 20.18, 19. Mat. 26.14, 15. ver. 47.57, 59, &c. Heb. 8. [...]0, 11, &c. Jer. 31.31, 32, 33, 34. to fulfill what the law did contai [...] after that the Lord had made a covenant with I [...] el after the flesh, and they did not abide in it, [...] broke it, then he promised that the would m [...] new covenant with the house of Israel, and the ho [...] Judah, but not according to the first covenant, wi [...] covenant they broke, notwithstanding he was an husb [...] to them; but this is the covenant that I will make [...] them, after those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put [...] laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I w [...] them, saith the Lord, and they shall not need to tea [...] [...] very man his brother, and every man his neighbour, s [...] ­ing, know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from [...] least to the greatest, and saith the Lord by the p [...] phet Isaiah, speaking of Christ, I will give thee f [...] covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of pris [...] and them that sit in darkness into the shaddow light.

Now this was foretold of by the prophets, Isai [...] and Jeremiah, and the Lord did perform his p [...] ­mises, made by the prophets concerning his co [...] nant: Jesus Christ was foretold to be his new co [...] nant; and when Jesus Christ which was foretold [...] by the prophets came to fulfill and put to an end [...] that was contained in the first covenant, all t [...] Jews, chief Priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, Elde [...] and Rulers of the people sought to put him [...] death, because he came to testifie against the d [...] ceits that they then lived in; for, saith Jesus Chri [...] himself, Because, saith he, I testifie against the w [...] that their deeds are evil, therefore doth the world h [...] me, It is the same now as it was then, where Jes [...] Christ is made manifest in the hearts of his peopl [...] Now when Jesus Christ came in that single person, Heb. 8.6, [...], 8, 9, 10, [...]1. [...]eb. 10.9. [...] came to put an end to the first covenant, which wa [...] broken, and to establish another, he went into th [...] [Page 15] [...]mple, and into the Synagogues, witnessing the [...]filling of the Law, and said to the people, Matth. 5.15, 16. ver. &c. Think [...] that I am come to destroy the law: I am not come to [...]stroy, but to fulfill the law, and he took the book, [...]d he read that place of Isaiah, where he had pro­ [...]esied, and foretold of him, and said, This day is [...]s Scripture fulfilled in your cars: now, againe he [...]d that heaven and earth should pass away, but not [...] joi, and one title of the word, should in no wise fail [...] all was fulfilled; he came for the fulfilling: af­ [...] that Jesus Christ was sacrificed up, Heb. 8.1.2 ver. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Heb. 10.1. ver. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Isa. 33.22. v. John 4.20, 21, 22. John 4.23, 24. which was [...] everlasting sacrifice, then all the Types, Figures, [...]d shaddows, was to be put to an end, all things [...]at was contained in the first covenant, both priests, [...]thes; sacrifices, and burnt-offerings, and all things [...]at was outward and carnall, the Law outwardly, [...]d the Judges, Lawgiver, and Kings, for he was both [...]dge, Lawgiver, and King himselfe; that temple [...]ich was outward, was to be disannulled after that [...] was sacrificed up, and that worship, for saith he [...] to the Woman of Samaria, in the 4 of John: Yee [...]rship yee know not what, wee worship wee know what: [...] the hour cometh and now is, when yee shall neither [...]rship at Jerusalem, nor at this Mount, which had been [...]e chiefest places of worship, but they should now [...]orship at neither of them, but they that worship [...]e Father, should worship him nearer hand, even in [...]irit and in truth: and after that Jesus Christ was [...]crificed up, which was the everlasting sacrifice, [...]ese was all to be ended; and the Apostles who [...]re made to partake of the substance of the second [...]venant, which was Christ in them, they went [...]th into the temple, and into the synagogues, to [...]aw the Jewes off from that outward worship, and [...]eached the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, Jonn 3.31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, ver. [...]rist was risen out of all those Ordinances; they [...]s dead, there was no life in them; Christ which [Page 16]was the life of them, was risen out of them; the [...] had been a beauty, and an excellency in them, [...] the time that they was commanded, but now [...] substance of them was come, and the glory of [...] Lord was departed out of them, both out of the ou [...] ­ward worship, and out of the outward temple, a [...] they was sent to declare against it, and to draw [...] from it: Acts. 7.47, 48, 49. ver. Steven hee went and witnessed against [...] and said, God that made the world did not dwell [...] temples made with hands, neither was hee to be wo [...] ­shipped there, Act. 6.10, [...]1, 12, 13, [...]4. ver. Act. 7.57, [...]8, 59. [...]oh. 10.27, [...]8, 29, 30, [...]1. ver. [...]on. 8.59. [...]er. Acts 7. And they said he came to ove [...] ­turne the Statutes, and Ordinances given out [...] Moses, and for witnessing of the truth was he ston [...] to death, by them of uncircumcised hearts a [...] eares: and it is the same generation now, that stone [...] the servants of the Lord; the stony hard hearts [...] untaken away yet in those, that either stoneth [...] countenanceth them that doth, they was yet nev [...] circumcised, with the circumcision made witho [...] hands, but are stifnecked and enemies to Jesus Chri [...] Joh. 8.41, &c. All that the Priest had for offering [...] the sacrifices, in the first Covenant, they was to pa [...] take of the things sacrificed, and offered up; and the [...] had rythes because they had no part nor portion [...] the promised land; & with those tythes the poor, th [...] widdow, and the strangers, and fatherless, were to [...] filled and satisfied, out of them, that the Lord G [...] might bless them. Deut. 14, [...]7, 28, 29. [...]er. But when the Priests took mony [...] what they did, the Lord was displeased with the [...] and sent his true Prophets to cry out against the [...] take the tythes from the Priest, and take off that op­pression that is upheld by the Lawyers; for the [...] are taskemakers, as the taskemakers in Egypt, th [...] doe burthen and oppress the Creation. Undoe th [...] heavy burthens that the people groans under [...] these oppressors, and let the oppressed go [...]ree, th [...] Lord doth require it, and let there not be any want [Page 17] [...]member the poore that are in wants, that they [...]ay have food and rayment, and be filled and sa­ [...]fied: seek not your selves but the good of others, [...]at the Lord God may bless you; let love run [...]th to all, and let it be without dissimulation, and [...] the Gospell will be preached to every Creature, [...] love is the fulfilling of the law, and Jesus Christ [...] is the love of the Father, and he is the end of the [...]w for righteousness, to them that believe, Rom. 8.4. who walk [...] after the flesh, but after the spirit, be not professors [...] possessors; If you know him, he is all love, and [...]rcy, and bowels of compassion, and he laid downe [...] life, to take away the tythes and oppression; [...]low him in his example, you that profess your [...]es to be Christians, for he that is in Christ is a new [...]ature, and he that saith he is in Christ, ought to [...]ke as hee walked, and hee went about doing good; [...]refore do good unto all, by undoing the heavy [...]dens, and letting the oppressed go free, remem­ [...] them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and do [...] all, as you would be done by, or else never profess [...]e love to God and Jesus Christ, for hee will call [...] to account, and workers of iniquity must de­ [...] from his presence; those that acts in un­ [...]teousness, who lives in pleasure and wanton­ [...], pride and haughtiness, idleness and ful­ [...] of bread, which were the sins of Sodom and [...] the sins of England, forgetting the poore that are [...]ants, bonds and imprisonments, but the Lord is [...]ing to visit his people that are imprisoned by [...] and will returne upon you the evill of your [...]gs, for in as much as you doe it to them, you doe [...] him; and see what he saith, Matth. 25.41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. in Matth. 25.41, [...] ▪ [...]3, 44, 45, 46. ver. Paul who was a true Minister [...]sus Christ, he was imprisoned by the Jews for [...]essing the truth, and Silas was imprisoned, and [...] and John, and were beaten, and others were [Page 18]stoned for witnessing the truth, by the Jews th [...] were enemies to Jesus Christ; and now the sa [...] things is acted by the men of this generation, [...] the Priests and Lawyers are the greatest ene [...] now, as they was then; but thus saith the Lo [...] Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill with them; but say [...] the righteous, Isa. 3.10. v. It shall go well with them. Now you [...] doth profess love to God and Christ, and foun [...] be of that generation that slew the righteous bl [...] in former ages, and this is the same generat [...] which kils and slayes the righteous ones in y [...] hearts, and keeps them in bonds and prisons; but [...] because the seed of God is imprisoned in you: [...] you that doth so, knows not Jesus Christ, who [...] Love your enemies, Luke 11.46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52. bless them that curse you, and [...] for them that hate you and dispitefully use you: nei [...] are you accquainted with the teachings of God [...] the new Covenant of grace, nor knows not God [...] dwels in a temple made without hanns, as the Ap [...] Paul did, who was partaker of the new Cove [...] which was Christ in him, Gal. 1.15, 16. and his body was made [...] temple of God, and he went and spoke against [...] outward temple, and said, God that made the w [...] did not dwell in temples made with hands, Act. 17.24, 25. neither [...] he worshipped with mens hands as though he [...] any thing, who giveth to all life and breath a [...] things; and hath made all Nations of the earth of [...] would and one blood, to serve him: and the Apo [...] went to draw them off from the outward wors [...] to exhort them to mind the light in them tha [...] shew them sin and evill, to mind that, and it [...] [...]a [...] them into all light; 2 Pet. 1.19. 2 Cor. 4.6. 1 Co [...]. 4.7.10, 11. ver. saith he, Yee have a [...] to the which ye do well to take heed unto, as unto [...] that s [...]in [...]th in a darke place, untill the day dawn [...] the [...]y-Siar arise in your hearts; that light did [...] them [...]at of all the wayes and works of darknes [...] [...] wrought out that carnal part in them, which [...] [Page 19] [...]hem at a distance from the Lord, who received it, [...]nd were obedient to it; and it did it did lead them [...] purity into righteousness up to the everlasting [...]ay of the Lords love and mercy, and brought all [...]at walked in obedience to it, to be united into one [...]ody, to be of one heart and mind, Heb. 12.22, 23, 24. to be a family of [...]ve, a houshould of faith, and they met together, [...]nd waited upon the Lord, and spoke their conditi­ [...]ns one to another, and had no man to speak over [...]em, 1 Cor. 14.23.30, 31, 32. Isa. 54.13, 14. 1 Cor. 14. chap. God did fulfill his promise [...]ven forth by Jeremiah the Prophet of the Lord, in [...]e new covenant, Jer. 31.34. where it is said that [...] would teach them himself, and in Isa. the 54. [...]ere it was promised by that Prophet, that all the [...]ildren of the Lord should be taught of the Lord, [...]d he would establish them in righteousness; All [...]o came to enjoy the second covenant, they did [...]tness the substance of all that made manifest in [...]em which was spoken in the first covenant, that [...]s made to the Jew outwardly, Now he is not a [...]w, that is one outwardly, but he is a Jew that is one [...]wardly. The Jew outwardly, he had his cove­ [...]nt outwardly; the Jew inwardly had his cove­ [...]nt inwardly; Christ was this covenant, and they [...]und him revealed and manifested in them: the [...]w outwardly in the outward covenant, he had a [...]w outwardly written in tables of stone; the Jew [...]wardly, he had his law inwardly in the new co­ [...]nant, written in the fleshly tables of the heart, [...]t with Inke, but with the Spirit of the living [...]od: the Jew outwardly, he had his law-giver out­ [...]ardly, but the Jew inwardly, he hath his law-gi­ [...]r inwardly in this second covenant: Isa. 33.22. Exod. 18.13. to the 28. Heb. 12.22 the Jew out­ [...]ardly in the first covenant, had his Judges out­ [...]ardly, the Jew inwardly he hath his Judge inward­ [...] in the second covenant; in the first covenant, [...]oses was to set over the people faithful men, fearing [Page 20]God, and hating covetousness, and they was judge the people at all seasons: [...]am. 5.9. [...]xod. 18. [...]0, 21, 22. the Jew inward he hath the Lord to be his law-giver, Iudge, a [...] King, to judge and condemne sin in the flesh, that [...] right [...]ousness of the law may be fulfilled: Christ is [...] end of the law inwardly; for righteousness, and [...] ­raigne as king for ever: The Jew outwardly in [...] first covenant, which was outward, had his prop [...] outwardly; but the Jew inwardly, he hath his p [...] ­phet inwardly, even Jesus Christ: the Jew o [...] ­wardly, in the first covenant, which was outwa [...] had his priests outwardly, the Jew inwardly, he h [...] his teacher inwardly, in the new covenant, whic [...] inward; the Lord alone is the teacher of all [...] himself alone, Isa. 55. Ye need not that any man t [...] you, 1 Joh. 2.27. but as the anointing teacheth you, 1 Joh. 2.27. [...] the Children of the Lord, are taught of the Lo [...] in righteousness are they established, and are [...] from oppression: The Jew outwardly, he hath [...] word outwardly; the Jew inwardly, he hath [...] word inwardly, Rom. 10. The word is nigh thee i [...] mouth, Rom. 10.8. 1 Cor. 6.19. 2 Cor. 6.16, 17, 18. and in thy heart; the Jew outwardly, he [...] his temple outwardly, in the first covenant; [...] Jew inwardly, his temple made without hands, [...] bodies made the temples of the living Gad; the [...] outwardly, he had his circumcision outwardl [...] the first covenant, which was outward, but the [...] inwardly, in the second covenant, he hath his [...] cumcision inwardly, circumcised with the circum [...] ­on made without hands, the cutting off the bod [...] sin; the Jew outward, he had his guide outward [...] the Jew inwardly, his guide inwardly: they that [...] guided by the Spirit of God, they are the son [...] God. Rom. 8.14. The Iew outwardly in the first covenant [...] had his sacrifice outwardly, the life of the crea [...] was to be offered up in a sacrifice, and it did [...] purifie the flesh, the outward part; It coul [...] [...] [Page 21] [...]ifie as touching the conscience, him that offered it up, [...]e Jew inwardly in the new Covenant, the blood Jesus Christ is offered up to purifie the consci­ [...]e: the Jew outwardly, he had his evidence out­ [...]rdly, the Jew inwardly, he hath his inwardly; are is three that bear record in earth, the water, 1 Joh. 5.6, 7, 8▪9. the [...]ad, and the spirit, and these three agree in one. In the [...] covenant, which was outwardly, to the Iew out­ [...]rdly, they had a Sabbath outwardly, the chil­ [...]n of Israel after they was come out of Egypt, Lord gave them a Sabbath; a sabbath is a rest, [...]gne of the true rest, which the Saints did injoy in [...]ist, the second covenant, Heb. 4. There is a rest the people of God; Heb. 4.9, 10. and he that believeth hath en­ [...] into his rest, and hath ceased from his works, as [...] did from his; In the first covenant, which was ward, their Church was outward, gathered to­ [...]er by an outward command of the letter with­ [...]; in the new covenant, which was inward, the [...] inwardly, their Church was in God, 1 Thes. 1.1. [...] and Silvanus, and Timotheus, 1 Thes. 1.1. 1 Pet. 2.5, 9. they writ unto the [...]uch of the Thessalonians, which were in God the [...]er of our Lord Jesus Christ; and they was all [...]ered together, by the light of God in them, that [...]t which the Apostle did exhort them to be mind­ [...] of, in 2 Pet. 1.19. and that light did lead them, guide them, out of the pollutions of the world, guided them up to purity, to holiness, to righ­ [...]ness; and they were born againe, begotten, by the will of man, but by the will of God, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. begot­ [...] by the immortal word, born of water and the [...] and they did walk after the Spirit, in love [...]tenderness of compassion, one towards another, [...] was of one heart, and one minde, and was all [...]dren of the light, and were guided by the Spi­ [...] God, and their consciences was purged from [...]ncleanness, by the blood of the covenat, and [Page 22]were all gathered together, by the Spirit of tr [...] out of all the wayes and works of darkness; [...] light did lead them out of all the worlds wayes, of all the worlds worships, which was outward carnal; saith the Apostle to them, Touch not, [...] not, handle not, which all are to perish, with using: Col. 2.21, 22. This light of God in them [...] lead them out of all the worlds customes and [...] ­ons, which the Apostle did exhort them to; [...] he, Be not conformed like unto this world, but be t [...] formed by the renewing of your minds, that ye [...] know what is that good, that acceptable, and pe [...] will of God; this light of God in them, did them, and guide them out of all the worlds [...] and did lead them into the way of peace and [...] and they were gathered by this light, out of al [...] crookedness, and perversenss, out of all lying, [...] maliciousness; for they was to put off anger, a [...] speak the truth one to another; for the Lord [...] delight in them who walk in righteousness be [...] him; saith Jesus Christ, Let your yea be yea, your nay, Mat. 5.37. nay, in all things, being faithful in wa [...] one towards another: faithfulness grows, ana [...] ­nesty grows, and uprightness grows, and so the [...] come faithful, to bring forth fruit, To the [...] and glory of God: by this light was they ga [...] together, up to unity of spirit, they were a [...] ­tized into one body, Joh. 15.8. 1 Cor. 12.12, 13, 14. Eph. 4.4, 5, 6. by one Spirit, and they we [...] made to drinke into one Spirit; they were come u [...] to mount Sion, and unto the City of the living Ge [...] heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable c [...] of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made p [...] the Church of the first born, Heb. 12.21, 22. The S [...] did enjoy the substance of the second cove [...] made manifest in them, which was Christ rea [...] in them; 1 Cor. 2 7. Gal. 1.16. the life of Christ was made manife [...] their mortal flesh, and the glory of the Lord [Page 23] [...]realed in them; 2 Cor. 4.10, 11. Rom. 8.1. 1 Joh. 2. 15, 16. Mat. 6.2. they had the substance of what [...]e first covenant did contain, which was outward, [...] the Jew outwardly made manifest in them, and [...]y the light of God, revealing and manifesting it to [...]eir souls: after they came to the enjoyment of it, [...] caused them to deny the world, and they exhor­ [...]ed others to take heed of it, saying, Love not the [...]orld, not the things of the world, for say they, If [...]y man love the world, the love of the Fther is not in [...]im; no man can serve two masters; they cannot [...]erve God and the world, for the love of the world [...] enmity with God; and by experience, from the enjoyment of this mystery of godliness, made mani­fest in them, they said, Eye hath not seen, 1 Cor. 2.10. ear hath not heard, neither hath it entred into the heart of man, [...] conceive those things that God hath laid up for those that love him; The Saints did possess that which the world doth but now profess; they had the full enjoyment of those things which the Scripture doth declare, and they did live the life of the righteous, and they were gathered, out of the world, and did walk up in obedience to the commands of God; therein was they known to differ from the world: for, saith Jesus Christ, If you love me, 1 Joh. 2.6. 1 Joh. 5.2, 3. keep my Com­mandments; now they did so, wherein say they, by this we know that we love God, because we keep his Commandments, and his Commandments are not grie­vious, but joyous, 1 Joh. 2.3. It is the delight of those that are borne againe, to do the will of God, none can but those that are born anew, for every man by nature is a childre of wrath, and the naturall man, he knows not the things of God, because they are spiritually discerned, and again, no man knows the Son, but the Father, neither knoweth any man the Faher, but the Son, and he to whom the Son reveals him; all the wisdom of the world cannot enter into the know­ledge of this mystery, to unfold it, it was revealed [Page 24]to the Saints, that had the enjoyment of it, wh [...] the world hated, at every appearance of God in t [...] discovering himself to his people; the world is in e [...] ­mity against it, marvel not if the world hate you: sai [...] Jesus Christ, it is not to be marvelled at; for saith he, hated me before it hated you, & saith he, if ye were of i [...] world, Joh. 3.13. [...]oh. 15.17, [...]3, 19, 20, [...]. [...]ak. 6.22, [...]. Pet. 4.13, [...]. [...]at. 5.11, [...]. [...]h. 17.18, [...], 20, 21. the world would love you, but because I have cho­sen you out of the world, therefore doth the world ha [...] you: and again saith he, Ye shall be hated of all men fa [...] my names sake, but saith he, Blessed are you, when [...] revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner [...] evill against you, falsly, for my names sake, rejoyce a [...] be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in He [...] ­ven, for so persecuted they the Prophets, that were before you; And where the Lord is appearing in his people now, great is the rage and madness of the world for whom God loves the world hates, nay the highe [...] profession persecutes the Lord in his Saints, whe [...] he is made manifest in power; all profession with­out possession is hypocrisy and dissimulation; Al [...] the holy men of God were possessers, but the world now lives in words, deceiving themselves, and di [...] ­sembling both with God and man, and practising nothing but deceit: and the Priests are the grand enemies to Jesus Christ, and the great deceivers of the people; they tell the people they are the Mini­sters of Jesus Christ, and indeed they are Antichrist, acting altogether against Christ; and they are the greatest upholders of oppression of any, which Je­sus Christ came to throw down, the whole creati­on is burdened by this stinking professed Ministery; they act the same things that the Scribes and Pha­risees did; they hold up those things that Jesus Christ came to throw down, and laid down his life for, and yet these deceivers that deceive the nati­ons, say they are sent of Christ, but they are found lyars; Jesus Christ foretold of such, that should [Page 25] [...]ome, for saith he, there shall come false prophets in [...]eeps clothing, Mat. 7.1 [...].16, 17, 1 [...], 19, 20, 21. but inwardly are ravening woolves, but saith he, By their fruits ye shall know them, Mat. 7. [...]hey say, and do not. Is it not so with the false [...]eachers in England? they say they are sent of Christ, but he that saith he is in Christ, 1 Joh. 2.6. ought to [...]alk as he walked; Jesus Christ was an example [...]or all his to follow, and the Apostle who was a [...]rue Minister of Christ, did exhort the people to [...]ollow him, Heb. 7.8, [...], 10, 11, 12. &c. Heb. 8.6, 7. &c. Heb. 9.8, 9. Heb. 10.9.10. so far as he followed Christ; now Jesus Christ came to take off oppression from the people [...]nd to undo the heavy burdens that they groaned [...]nder then, by the fair-sayers, as those hypocrites [...]re now, that say and do not; Jesus Christ came [...]o take off that oppression of Tythes, that was one [...]ing that he shed his blood for, but Antichrist holds [...]up, which is contrary to Christ: Christ came to throw down the idols temple, and to throw down [...]he outward worship, which the Jew outwardly had, [...]nd to fulfill all that the law did contain outwardly, [...]hat he might place his law in their hearts, to be ful­ [...]illed there: That he alone might teach them by his Spirit, without form, Jer. 31.33.34. Heb. 8.10.11. Joh. 4.23.24. to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth, Joh. 4. Now the false teachers in Eng­ [...]and holds up the idols temple, and sits in the seat of the Scribes and Pharisees, acting as in a stage­ [...]lay for money, all for filthy lucre, and prosesseth the Scripture to be their rule, when there is not a Scripture to warrant them for any thing they do. There is not a word in the Scripture for them to go to Cambridge or Oxford, to be so long there, to [...]earn a trade of deceit, to give a meaning to the Scripture, to gloss them over, by their humane and serpentine wisdome, to deceive people with their imaginations; but to the contrary, for the Scrip­ture saith, that every word of God is pure, and he that addeth thereto, or taketh therefrom, shall be [Page 26]reproved, and found a lyar, Prov. 30.5, 6. and [...] gaine, see what the Lord said to Moses in Deut. 4. [...] Ye shall not adde unto the word which I command [...] but these goes contrary to the command of t [...] Lord, that goes to learn deceit, to add their [...] mane wisdom, to that which is truth in it self; a [...] the Spirit of God could not understand its own d [...] ­claration. And again, saith Jesus Christ, I testi [...] that he that addes to the word of the prophecie, I w [...] adde to him all the plagues that are written in the B [...] Rev. ult. And again, it is said, that no man knows [...] Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Fath [...] but the Son, and he to whom the Son reveals him, as i [...] [...] in John. Then what use is all their brain-study [...] It is all deceit, dung, and dirt: Away with it, a [...] with it; the Lord is coming to burn up all dece [...] and deceivers, and to scatter the proud in all their i [...] [...] ­ginations. Howl, ye proud Priests, for wo and mise [...] is your portion: wo was the portion of the Scri [...] and Pharisees, that laid heavie burdens upon [...] people, as these deceivers do, that deceive the p [...] ­ple, and bewitcheth them with those things wh [...] God never commanded, telling the people that th [...] are Ordinances of God. There is not a word in t [...] Scripture for sprinkling Infants, and those fa [...] Priests say that it is an Ordinance of Christ; a [...] they can make Christians (as they say) by sprinkl [...] them with a little water, and so entreth them i [...] Covenant; so making Christians by their imagi [...] ­tions. These are the false christs, and false proph [...] spoken of in Scripture. Now the Saints, they w [...] baptized by one Sp [...] m o one body, and they were [...] of one heart and one minde. There is not a word [...] the Scripture for Tythe-mongers, and false teach [...] in England, to have the tenth of the yeers Incre [...] of all things for their brain-study, whereby they [...] ­ceive the people, professing themselves to be the [...] ­ [...]sters [Page 27]of Christ, and act altogether against Christ, [...]ewing themselves to be Antichrists. What Scripture [...]ave they to take Tythe of wheat, rye, and barley? What Scripture have they for their rule, to take tithe [...]f oats, pease, and beans? What Scripture have they [...]r their rule to take tythe of sheep, the tenth lamb, [...]nd the tenth fleece? Eze. 34.2 [...] 3.4. v. 16 [...] But as it was amongst the false [...]eachers in Israel, Ezek. 34. so it is with the false tea­ [...]hers in England now; they teach for the fleece, and [...]ed themselves with the fat: but the Lord will feed [...]uch with judgement. [...] [...]se t [...] [...]est th [...] [...]ipture [...] Mini­ [...] Saints [...]phold [...] not of [...]nding [...]ng in [...]mies, [...]gn in [...] [...]eer What Scripture have they for [...]heir rule, to take tythe of hemp, and flax, & pigs? [...]nd what Scripture have they for their rule, to take [...]ythe-apples and plums, walnuts and cherries? what Scripture have they for their rule, to take money for [...]ggs, and to have tythe-geese? What Scripture have [...]hey for their rule, to take money for the reek passing [...]p the chimneys? What Scripture have they for their [...]ule, to take a peny for a garden every yeer? What Scripture have they for their rule, to take money for every foal that is foaled? What Scripture have they [...]or their rule, to take money for every cow that hath a calf, and a peny for them that have none? What Scripture have they for their rule, to take a farthing of a shilling of servants for their wages? What Scri­pture have they for their rule to Church women as they do, and take mony for it when they have done? What Scripture have they for their rule, to bury as they do, and take mony for it when they have done? did either Jesus Christ, or his Apostles, that were the true Minister of the Gospel ever do so? See if these be not the task-masters of Egypt: there is scarce any thing, but these deceivers have an end in it, they are altogether for filthy lucre, contrary to the A­postle to Timothy and Titus, 1 Tim. 1, 2, 3. Tit. 1.7, [...] 1 Pet 5.2, [...] who were true Mini­sters of Christ, Tit. 1.8, 9, 10. See who denies the Scri­ptures, but those that deny to walk according to them in life and conversation. For shame, down with [Page 28]oppression: blush for shame, all such deceivers, a [...] upholders of the deceits, and never profess love [...] God nor Christ, [...]sa. 33.14. [...]5. for your profession is found to [...] hypocrisie: and wo and misery will be your porti [...] except ye repent, & give over deceiving the peop [...] Down with all deceivers, [...]ude 11. v. & false worships; the gre [...] day of the Lord is coming upon them all. What Sc [...] ­pture have these for their rule, that have great su [...] of money, so much a yeer, gifts and rewards, as [...] laams priests had? What Scripture have they [...] their rule, that have Augmentations? And what Scr [...] ­pture have they for their rule, to go to law for tith [...] or for any thing else, that profess themselves to [...] Ministers of Christ? Neither Christ, nor any that [...] sent forth to preach the Gospel, but all spoke again [...] it: saith Christ, Whosoever shall sue thee at the law, a [...] take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also, Matth▪ [...] and the Apostle, who was a true Minister, spoke [...] ­gainst it: and they that say they are the Ministers [...] Christ, and act contrary to Christ, are Antichrist [...] though they have never so fair a colour, they a [...] but the coloured Beast, painted outsides; mar [...] them that say, and do not, those are false Prophets▪ Mat. 7. What Scripture have they any of them, t [...] have the chiefest places in the Assemblies, and to b [...] called of men masters? The Scribes and Pharisee [...] had, which were enemies to Jesus Christ; and those that sits in their seats are the same. What Scripture have they for their rule to go in long Robes, or in a colour differing from their brethren? The Scribes and Pharisees did so, which were enemies to Jesus Christ. What Scripture have they for their rule to pray standing in the Synagogues, before they preach as they call it, and after they have done? there is Scri­pture to the contrary, where Jesus Christ saith, Pray not standing in the Synagogues. What Scripture have they for their rule, to be idle 6 days of 7, and then to go into the Idols temple, & take a glass to speak [Page 29] [...]; and none must speak till they have done, nor then neither [...] there is to the contrary: In the true Church all may speak, [...]t all may be edified; but it is plain that it is the false Church [...] of any thing be revealed to him that stood by, in the true Church [...] that had it revealed to him was to speak, and the other was to hold [...] peace, 2 Cor. 14. but it is not so now; he must be haled out the Apostles were by the Jews, and either beaten, or stoned, o [...] [...] imprisoned, and shut close up, and not one to come at him, [...]cept he give them money: all contrary to the Scripture, for [...] Apostle had more favour shewed of the Heathen, when he [...] imprisoned, then the Saints of God have now, by those that [...]fess themselves to be Christians, but it is plainly manifest that [...]y are enemies both to God and Christ. What Scripture [...]ve they for their rule, professing themselves to be the Mini­ [...]s of Jesus Christ, to imprison so many of the dear Saints [...] servants of the Lord, by a Law that was made to uphold [...] Popish Clergie withal? See now whether these be not of [...] generation of Cain, yea or no, and are of the devil, standing [...]ctual rebellion against Jesus Christ, now that he is arising in [...] Saints: but the Lord will be avenged of all his enemies, [...] his adversaries, and he alone will be honoured and reign in [...] Saints for ever and ever. The great day of the Lord is neer [...]and: Awake thou that sleepest, and come to judgement: [...] glittering sword is drawn, it is four bished, and made fit for [...] slaughter, to cut down to the ground all the enemies of the [...]d: he will plead with all flesh by his sword and by fire, and [...]t shall be the slain of the Lord.

Oh England, England, repent, and turn to the Lord: Let the [...]e past of your lives be sufficient, that you have wrought e­ [...] and now turn from the evill of your ways; Let him that stole [...] no more: Let him that is proud forsake his pride and haugh­ [...]ss; it is abomination to the Lord: Let Nabal forsake his [...]liness, and the covetous man his covetousness; Let the drun­ [...]d forsake his drunkenness; let the vain talkers forsake their [...] talk, and put away their foolish jes [...]ings, for God doth for­ [...] it: Let the lustful one take up the Cross of Christ, that his [...] may be sacrificed up, that innocency may be head: let the en­ [...]s man forsake his envy, and let the inventor forsake his cun­ning [Page 30]inventions, and let the backbiter forsake his backb [...] and the scoffing Ishmael, his scoffing, and the scorner, le [...] [...] forsake his scornfulness, lest his bands be made strong: L [...] [...] [...]wearer forsake his swearing; God doth forbid it; Let the [...] forsake his lying, the false accuser his false accusations: [...] you Priests and Lawyers, go and make restitution to who [...] [...] have robbed. They that steal, they steal in the night; they [...] are drunk, are drunk in the night; but now the day is da [...] [...] and the Day-star is risen, and the Sun begins to rise; and h [...] [...] run forth in power, and you will be spyed out, where eve [...] [...] are; all your old store-houses, your corrupt hearts m [...] [...] searched, the Lord is come, and is coming, let him come, [...] will now be found guilty before the divine Magistrate, he [...] drawn his glittering sword, it is sharpe on both sides, it hath [...] edges; wo, wo to you Priests and Lawyers, wo, wo to you p [...] and lustful ones, Isa, 28.1, 2, 3. Let the oppressor forsake h [...] pression; the earth is the Lords, and the fulness thereof: L [...] bloodthirsty ones forsake their bloodthirstiness. The Magi [...] bears not the sword in vain, he will not suffer sin to go u [...] [...] ­ [...]ished: Awake, awake, and stand up to judgement, the L [...] [...] coming, the Lord is coming, in power and great glory, to [...] his power known upon all that act in unrighteousness. [...] Priests and Lawyers, the Lord will plead with you all: sta [...] awe of him, and tremble: you must all give up your acc [...] and wo to the unjust, they must be turned into hell, and all [...] that forget God: Thus saith the Lord, Will ye not fear me? [...] ye not tremble at my presence? Now the Trumpet begins to so [...] Come out of your wickedness, and meet the Lord by tru [...] [...] ­pentance, lest your hearts be hardened, and your hands be [...] strong, and so you be given up to a reprobate minde, and [...] into continual torment. Let the Adulterer forsake his Ad [...] ­ry; for Adulterers and Whoremongers God will judge. No [...] [...] new Law is found, and given forth of Sion; and as these are [...] [...] ­gressions, & all unrighteousness, and are covered over by a [...] [...] ­fession, but all Covers must be ript, and stand before the [...] [...] ­teous Magistrate, that hath and doth establish this new [...] righteousness, and he is a just Judge; look to it all, both grea [...] small, that act in unrighteousness: Hear ye this, O heads [...] people; Let the time past suffice you, and now remove violen [...] [...] spoil, and execute judgement and justice, and take away your [...]