Mat. 24. 1 Pet. 2. Esa. 8. [...]8. Mat. 21. [...] Thes. 3. Mat. 1.13 Luke 8.10. Jam. 3. Zepha. 3. Esa. 3.10. Esa. 24. 56 57.EVen as the only true, and alone saving Faith, is not common to all, and every one; so neither, and much less yet, is th [...] Teaching or Ministry of Faith, as of the mystery or Kingdome of God, indifferent to any, the name having ever been hid to the wise and prudent of the world, even from the beginning, 1 Cor. 1. Therefore not every one should take upon him to be a Teacher, he shall pass the heavier judgement, for the outward destructi­ons in the world, Rom. 9. which have been set on foot, or in­troduced all this while with the ruine of mankind; ye are the fruits, whereby the false Teachers, 2 Pet. 2. the Priests, and Prophets that were never known nor sent of God, are to be Ezek. 9.13 22. 34. 2 Tim. 4. Rom. 2. Colos. 2. 1 Cor. 3. Mat. 21. known, Jer. 14.23. Mat. 7. Mark 13. whom indeed the peo­ple have heaped or charged upon themselves, among themselves, and by whom, (to the reproach of Christ) that are not at all buil [...] up according to the renewing in the Spirit of the mind, upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, 1 Pet. 2. where Jesus Christ is the Corner-stone, Act. 4. For which cause also they viz. the Herb, or false Christians, Mark 13. are so divide [...], 2 Pet 2. Rom. 1.11. Epis. Jud. Rom. 16. Hos. 10. or torn and rent in pieces, now in all their Sectaries and Parties, through the contentious practises of their Shepherds, or Learne-men, Jer. 2. 10. and so blinded, in regard of Christ the Light of Faith, Eph. 4. that ye take no heed at all according to the 2 Cor. 4. 1 Thes. 5. Dan. 7.22. Jer. 5. 8, 9, 10, 30. brightness of the Gospel, which yet ought principally to en­lighten or shine in their hearts or consciences, unto this present and last time, viz. unto the day of the Lord, yet believe nei­ther God, nor right Judgement, nor Righteousness more, Sap. 2. 8. concerning the Fundamental Charge, or removal of this present trouble, great distress, and universal calamity; which fearful slighting Christ the Arch-Shepherd, the true Hereditary, [Page 4] inheriting Lord of all the Heathen, Psal. 82. will be sure to avenge. Rom. 9. Luk. 21. Mark 13. Mica 4. 5. [...] Pet. 5. Heb. 13. Mat. 21.24. Mark 12. 13. [...] Pet. 2. Mich. 5. But in the first place, upon the builders of this present false Jerusalem, or unspiritual Temple, and unholy Priest-hood, 1 Pet. 4. For that stately Building of the Shepheards, which built this present Babel, and made the Flocks to become a prey to all the wilde beasts of the forrest, even by themselves, is not at all to stand or endure to the end of the world, even as the scorners of old had likewise imagined, who ever more re­sisted God inwardly in their hearts and consciences, Epistle Jude.

It is not lawful for any shepherd or minister at all to prevent the Jer. 25. Rev. 16. Ezek. 34. [...] Pet. 3. Jer. 23. Ezek. 13. Acts 10. Isa. 28. [...] Pet. 2. [...] Tim. 1. Tit. 1. Matt. 15. 23, 24. Mark 7. 13. John 2. 4. [...] Tim. 4. Col. 2. Mat. 7. John 10. Ezek. 13. 22. Mat. 23. Luk. 11. Eph. 4.5. [...] Pet. 2. Ps. 14.141. Mat. 15. Col. 2. [...] Tim. 3. Psal. 53. Zeph. 3. Mat. 23. Luk. 11. word of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, or to teach the same falsely or perversly, only according to the Vision or Spirit of his own heart, much less according to his own Satanical, harebraind, puft up, arrogant, and develish presumption, Psal 12. 73. or to master the Scripture altogether, as is now adays the common pra­ctice amongst these audacious, unprofitable bablers and seducers, who have made all the world to hang after them, seduced the same, or for doing upright, and dealing uprightly, according to consci­ence, led them away from God, Jer. 2. 10. 50. being indeed not all of God, but only of the world, come from the high Schools or Universities, covering themselves with black or sheeps cloath­ing, walking in the humbleness and decentness or glistringness of Angels, but being therewithal inwardly ravening wolves, and hirelings; yea theeves and murderers of souls, deceiving the peo­ple, and outwardly painting, dawbing over, or covering such of them as delight to hear their hypocrisie and lying giving about too contrary to the doctrine of Christ and his Disciples, the true Apo­stles and Prophets, to make them outwardly fair and godly through themselves, or holy out of their own power; But in vain, saith Christ, do ye teach such doctrines as are nothing but the Comman­dements of men; that say, thou shalt not touch, taste, handle this: things that perish all under the hands that have a shew of wisdom, through self invented spirituality and humility, ever teaching, and never able to attain to the knowledge of truth; urging men by their unprofitable and perverse doctrines from without; troubling them with grievous institutions, dragging or loading them with great burdens, or intollerable Yoaks, because of their false works and self-devised holiness, whereby God the foundation of [Page 5] the Head-spring of all good, being already rejected by the Ma­ster-buildings, Ps. 59. 144 Mat. 21. Mark 12. Luke 20. Psa. 118. 1 Tim. 4. Titus 3. Rom. 9. 1 Joh. 1.4. Colos. 2.3. Eph. 2.4. Rom. 4.11. 1 Pet. 5. Gal. 5. Rom. 5.12. Eph. 2. Colos. 1. 1 Cor. 6.7 1 Pet. 1. Rom. 9.10. must stand behind now, and have no interest nor e­steem more in the world, just, as if for the accomplishment, or performing much things, men were sufficient of themselves, or it depended meerly of their bodily exercises or abilities, and were not according to Gods preventing Grace to be directed, from that same ground, wherein the true Believers are rooted in the Communion of God, who therefore ought to be united together through the Bond of Peace, and the love of God in the Spirit, for to be established through Faith in the Grace of God, and in the freedome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, his Members being already grafted into him, and thus planted or transplanted in the Celestial Being, after they were once delivered from the Power of Darkness, redeemed through the Blood of the Son of God, and dearly purchased for his Everlasting Kingdome.

For with God there availeth no deceived or inured practise of self-bred holiness, or Jewish righteousness, as not meerly the outward putting away of the filth in the flesh, like unto the painted or glistering wicked Jezabel; but the Covenant of a good conscience with God, and that through the power of the Isa. 48.58. 2 Kings 9. 1 Pet. 3. Phil. 2. Eph. 1.3.5. Colos. 1.2. 1 Pet. 3. Psal. 12. Gal. 6. Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is the Head of the Magi­strates, Principalities and Dominions, for whi [...]h cause the An­gels, the Mighty Ones, and the Powers in Heaven and Earth ought to be subject, submissive, and obedient unto him, Heb. 5.12. but yet by no means in any slight or [...]uperficial manner, only from without, according to the nature and practise of hypo­crites and dissemblers, which make themselves acceptable accord­ing to the flesh, and neglect withall the weightiest matters in the Law, namely, the Judgement, the Mercy, and the Faith, by Mat. 23. Jer. 23. 2 Thes. 2. Revel. 20. Cor. 2.10. Hebr. 12. Mat. 11.2 Mark 8. John 12. Esa. 12. 6. Rom. 8.11. John 1.17 Gal. 4. Rom. 5. 2 Pet. 2. Eph. 4. reason of which hypocrisie, all things are now through the pow­er and operation of Satan, turned loose in the world, so that there is none more that desireth to endure the persecutions of the Cross of Christ, under the obedience of Faith, or that so hoped for the salvation of the Lord, or waited for the help out of Sion, under the yoak of the Sea of God, in contemning the world, and denying of himself, Mat. 10. 16. 19. Luke 9. 4. 18. as to observe and take heed to the deliverance of Israel, accord­ing to the Morning Star of the Grace of God, 2 Pet. 1.

But the dung of the Feasts, or Holy-daies (whereby the flesh hath now gotten scape to all manner of naughtiness, and through the inticement and allurings whereof, people are so ex [...]remely [Page 6] blinded in the deepest bottom of their hearts, and made like to Jer. 17.18 19. Mal. 2. Jer. 23. Phil. 2. 3. Exod. 19. [...] Pet. 2. [...] Cor. 1.6. [...] Cor. 6. Rom. 14. Mat. 15. John 15. [...] Cor. 3. Eph. 2. Gal. 6. [...] Cor. 4. Colos. 2. [...] Tim. 4. John 15. [...] Cor. 5. Rom. 7. Gal. 3. 5. Eph. 4. Hebr. 3. Luke 1. [...] Pet. 1. Hebr. 4. Isa. 40. Rom. 9. [...] Pet. 2. Ps. 87.125 Esa. 15. [...] Pet. 2. Colos. 2. [...] Tim. 1. [...] 4. Rom. 11. Mat. 21. Rom. 11. Hebr 8. [...]sa. 9. Mat. 24. Ep. Iud. Colos. 2. [...] 3. 2 Tim. 4. Mark 13. [...] 2. 5. Sepulchres) the same shall be cast into face of the Priests, for their dreams avail nothing at all, but the Word of God doth; and that which doth not proceed of Faith, or consisteth in the power of Divine Working, or Efficacy (according as the Holy Ghost will have his own peculiar people to be governed) that same is sin; therefore saith Christ, All the plants which mine hea­venly Father hath not planted, are cut off, and whatsoever bring­eth not forth fruit, out of Christ, the same is cast into the fire: Whence it is that the holy Apostle Paul doth not at all allow of, or require the bare, outward, self-performed works, by carnal power and ability, lest any should glory in of the same, exalt himself therein, as those in the first Testament, when they had not the knowledge of Christ yet, but in a new substantial way of the spirit, Rom. 7. in holiness and righteousness, which is accept­able to God, yeilding the fruit of the incorruptible seed, and that according to the power of the living Word of God, which endureth for ever; wherefore the true Believers, according to, and for the inward grounds of their hearts, are to be built and bottomed, or grounded fast, that so conformably to the Gospel of Christ, they may be cemented, and junctary be supported to­gether, for the improvement of the common body; for when the people of the Jews, who yet were the true natural branch, did not adhere to their Testament in this manner, and brought not accordingly fruits worthy of the Kingdome of God, the same was taken from them, yea, no more regarded, and quite cast or cut off from the root, Rom. 11.

Let none at all therefore imagine, or be conceited, as if his false Prophets now had false Power and Commission yet from God, or part of his everlasting Kingdome, for those dreams which are meerly carnal, and have no spirit at all, namely, those light-swelling proud Saints, on whom the world relieth. Now for their Salvation, and by whom the people, ever according to their own wills and pleasures, are so far seduced, and led away from God, that none doth care or desire any more, in the in­ward ground of the heart or conscience, to square his actions to the Counsel of the Lord, or the Will of God, arrogating be­sides unto themselves, according to their audaciousness, to Lord and Master it over heaven it self, by their false or pick-key-of­fice, [Page 7] according to, or by which, the Devil through them absol­veth now from, or forgiveth sins, to the utter ruine of all man­kind: 1 Pet. 2.5 Jer. 23. Mat. 7.21. Esa. 28. John 10. Rev. 16.20 Ezek. 13. Hos. 4. Psal. 12. Esa. 47.52. Rev. 14.17 2 Pet. 2. Zac. 10.11 13. Esa. 33. 1 Cor. 1. Jer. 5. 1 Cor. 2. Mat. 21. 1 Cor. 4. 1 Tim. 1.4 These, I say, for the deliverance sake of the poor and af­flicted which perish, are ruined and destroyed hereby; or else under the Babylonians Yoke, or Abomination, fall into perditi­on of Soul and Body, shall be the foremost thrust, and destroyed in Hell, or obscurity of darkness, for evermore. Epist. Jude.

The wisdome of the Wise, and the understanding of the un­derstanding ones, which the Scribes and worldly learned have of God and his Word, is already discharged, defeated, and rejected by God, although they have not the Word of the Lord, but re­peated the same afore-hand, according to the spiritual knowledge of it, Jerem: 8. Hos. 4. teaching the word of God not at all in his Power, or according to the instruction of the Spirit, but falsly and perversly, by Humane Reasons, and Worldly Constitutions, according to the fabulousness of their deceitful Philosophy, Col. 2. and wherewith the whole world is led away already, by doing of evil, or dealing wrongfully, from Christ the Light of E­verlasting Salvation, or narrow way of life, according to the knowledge of God: But what the issue or condition will be of these blinded Heathens, in Christ the Light of Faith, or false Tit. 1. Acts 20. Jer. 23. Rom. 1. Eph. 4. Joh. 8.12, 14. Mat. 7. 2 Cor. 4. Tit. 1. Esa. 26. Mat. 7.12. 21. 24. Rom 1.6. Hos. 10. Jer. 7. 8. Esa. 1. Nah. 3. Jer. [...]. mouthed Christians, being spiritually dead already, Rev. 12. 20. and having never regarded nor cared to bring forth the fruits of Faith, of Love, of Righteousness, but growing, or tarrying now by this their outward Temple wayes, or false worship, and for to maintain the same, such thieves and murderers, that ye do far surpass the uncircumcised Heathens, Jerem. 9. or the uncharmed beasts, by whom the Devil did rage and exercise his fury in for­mer times, Psal. 2. 10. 65. 76. 94. 99. with their selfish, re­vengeful, Cainical, cruel, more then devillish uncessant practises of robberies and murders, that same shall be made manifest, in such sort, with the vindicating of the holy Name of God, his E­ternal Truth and Righteousness, that those thieves and murde­rers shall not be able to escape the fierceness of Gods Wrath, and the five Pools of the Eternal Hellish condemnation, Isa. 1. 34. 36. who rob God of his Honour and Vengeance, and quite overthrow his Decrees and Judgements, in behalf of the ever­lasting deliverance of Israel, with their horns, or wicked pow­er, which ye do maintain, or keep on foot, with the encrease of [Page 8] the land, the sweat and blood of the Subjects; and they indea­vour Hab. 3. Joel 23. Ezek. 36. Ps. 89.119 Rev. 16.19 Zac. 5.10. Ier. 25.30. Rev. 6. 12. [...]sa. 4. Deut. 32. Rev. 13. [...]sa. 45. Amos 6. Psal. 7.6. Amos 5. [...]am. 50. Psa. 10.33 [...]sa. 30.31. [...]ab. 3. [...]eut. 32. [...]r. 2.7.14. [...]2. 23. [...]zd. 4.15. [...]sa. 12.74. [...] 80. [...]al. 4. [...]sa. 8. [...]om. 4. 5. [...]11. [...]eb. 10.11 [...]eph. 1. [...]a. 14.28. [...]at. 24. Pet. 3. [...]sal. 12. [...] Cor. 3. [...] Jude. [...] Pet. 2. [...] 1.57. [...] 13.22. [...]h. 4.5. 2 Pet. 2. [...]v. 16. Cor. 11. [...]l. 12. [...] 52. [...]s 20. [...] 7. Rom. 16. 2 Pet. 2. or go about to frustrate or disanul the Counsel of the most high, altogether only for their selfish humour and glory, or Lu­ciferous exaltations, Obad. 1. Nah. 3.

For the blood of the slain, Isa. 26. poor innocent souls, that have been spilt here and there, for such a time hitherto, in the murdering dens of this false Christendome, and the ruine of the poor, that are destroyed in all places or countreys, because of the hypocrisie of the evil, dis-united, (disagreeing) practises of the Shepherds, all that same shall be judged yet, now before the end of the world, as before the great and terrible day of God, Hez. 37. Mic. 4.

Now that there is none at all more, who according to the in­ward Law, or testimony of faith or conscience (wherein yet eve­ry true believer ought to stand or walk for his own salvations sake) doth observe to take notice of the day of the Lord, or but believe in regard of the deliverance of the faithful and Elect, That there is either a God or a Judgement, that same resteth wholly and principally upon the hypocrisie and lies of the Shepheard, Jerem. 33. upon their hypocritical shew of holy ways and courses, which every one doth strive in his own Religion, Seat, or Party, to maintain and desend, without and against God, in which regard they do yet once again outwardly garnish the same people they have already deceived and seduced aforehand, Mat. 24. having in regard of the light or the only true and saving faith, led them astray or away from God, and plunged them into error or dark­ness of conscience, which yet shall not so succeed or avail to the Devil for ever; namely to transform himself still by his servants, the false Apostles or deceitful Labourers, after such an impudent and shamless sort, into an Angel of Light, all whose endeavour and labour is but to maintain their own things, Hez. 13. devou­ring the people to feed and fat themselves, and therewithal re­viling the counsel of the poor, in regard of the deliverance of Is­rael, or the help out of Zion; nay, even utterly denying herein the Almighty Power of God in Christ Jesus, the only Lord and Monarch, Epist. Iude. Wherefore also such fierce and ravening wolves and hirelings, who indeed serve but the world and their own bellies, will draw or hale a sudden condemnation upon them­selves.

[Page 9] For not every one that saith Lord, Lord, shall enter into Mat. 7.21. Rom. [...]. Heb. 3.10. Jer. 2. 17. Psa. 33.71 72. Luke 17. 18. Esa. 28.50 Zeph. 1.3. Dan. 12. Ps. 58.96. 98. the Kingdome of Heaven; and those that inwardly in their hearts or consciences have so far lost or forsaken the hope, confidence, and assurance in God, the living Foun­tain, touching the deliverance of the poor and afflicted, the faithful and elect, that ye never yet desired above all things to do; what the universal, temporal, and eternal welfare of mankind do require, they shall find it by expe­rience, to their own eternal shame and confusion, that God both is, and shall be Judge in that matter, here upon his earth, or under heaven, Dan. 7.

The Devil for a good while hitherto hath taken away, or usurped by the Heathens, or false Christians (who are grown Rom. 1.11. Mark 13. Jam. 5. 1 Cor. 10. Psal 72. Mat. 12. Revel. 18. Esa. 1. 5. 45. Psal. 10. wroth to destroy the earth, Revel. 12. 16.) all that, which in the first place is Gods, as Silver, Gold, Hag. 2. Tribute, Custome, Taxes, Excise, Contribution, or the blood-money of the poor, Amos 5. Whatsoever is necessary for the deli­verance of the Faithful, and fulfilling of the Judgement of God thereby, not only to hinder the Redemption of Isra­el, or the Fundamental Deliverance of the Elect, but al­together to frustrate and disanul the same, to the end, that only the vain, worldly, and Sectarian quarrelsome contenti­ons Rom 1.16 Hos. 10. Amos 5. Zeph. 1.3. Sap. 5. Esa. 3. 59. 2 Pet. 2.3. Mat. 24. Luke 17. Syr. 40. Gen. 6.7. 19. 1 Cor. 3. 2 Pet. 3. Psa. 7.11. 18.89.97. distracted Religions, cause prate and dispute, courses might be maintained, but that hereupon only the fire of destruction and desolation was kindled all the world over, that same shal surely be judged yet in these, according to the Righteousness of God, that partake in the guilt and cause of it, and do as much care for God in matter of their purposes or practises herein, as their fellow-scorners and scoffers of old, in the dayes of Noah and Lot, whom God for that very cause afterwards drowned with the deluge, and destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven, Epist. Jude, Malach. 4.

The Lord shall judge all flesh by fire and by his sword, Isa. 66. Amos 9.

First of all, The men or people of this present and last John 5. 1 Pet. 2. world, have not the word of God within them, conse­quently [Page 10] all their practises and purposes are contrary to the writings of the Apostles and Prophets, Isa. 8. 28. and Jer. 7.8.11 14. Deut. 18. Mat. 3.11. 17. John 16. Psalm 69. John 2. Zachar. 9. Luk. 19.21 Mat. 24. A [...]. 5.6.7. Ier. 23. Joh. 8.10. 12. though Moses or Elias, nay Christ himself were in the world now to argue and reprove the evil, unrighteous, wicked, false, and perverse courses of the children of men, and should begin according to the zeal of God, to stir against their false worship of God; and according to the true ground, seriously take to heart and endeavour the rescuing of mankind from these present troubles and great tribulati­ons, assuredly it would fare far worse with them, in regard of this present presumptuous government in the world, then ever hapned in former times among the Jews, in the house of Ahab, and by wicked Jezabel to any, 1 Kings 19. 21. Rom. 11.

For the Heathens or false Christians, Mat. 24. like unto the Sodomites and Gomoritans, will not endure to be re­proved Rom. 1.11. Gen. 19. Re. 11.19. Rom. 1. Hos. 10. or mastered here upon the earth and ground of God the Lord of Hosts, Psal. 24. 89. 95. 103. Their vain Counsels, destroying and hurtful Designes, and what they themselves project and make choice of among themselves, Isa. 65.66. that must stand according to their imagination Psal. 33. Isa. 8.30. for ever, and prosper. But on the contrary, the eternal counsel of the Lord most high, touching the setting up of his Kingdom, and the executing of his Judgments, Mat. Dan. 2. 7. Rev. 18.19 Num. 16. 12. that must be no more, but remain behind or perish al­together in their account: These people nevertheless, like Korah, Dathan, and gathering of Abiram, have outward­ly a godly shew of godliness, but they deny the power 2 Tim. 3.4. Acts 20. thereof, as also do their worldly learned and perverted men, through whose doctrine they are possessed and blinded alrea­dy, by the God of this world, viz. by the Devil or Spirit Eph. 2.4.6. 2 Cor. 4. Epist. Jud. Heb. 4. of darkness, which indeed very soon discovers it self in them when they are rightly set upon by the power and truth of the living word of God, Mich. 3. 7.

Summarily those people which are so earnest, and count­ed by their outward Temple or false worship of God, as Ier. 7. [...]. Ez. 13.22. that in the first place they do inwardly in their hearts and [Page 11] consciences, resist the Grace of God, our Lord and Saviour Mat. 23.24 Tit. 2. Gal. 4.5. Rom. 5. 8. Ier. 23. Isa. 28.65. 66. 2 Thess. 1. Deutr. 32. Jesus Christ, according to the Spirit of Adoption; and then in regard of the outward troubles of the world, do not at all desire or endeavour, above all things to conform their practise to the Councel of the Lord, or Will of God, Mat. 7. 21. they shall find God to be a Vengeance upon them, and a consuming fire in the nethermost Hell, Heb. 10. 12. Zeph. 1.3.

Like as the men and people of this last and present world, 4 Esdr. 2. Mat. 7.11. Luk. 8. 10. Isa. 8.28. Lu. 17.21. Mark 13. Epis. Jude as having forsaken God in their hearts or consciences, ac­cording to the Mistery of his Kingdom, do not believe that there shall be a Judgment: Yet for a fundamental change or removal of these present troubles and tribulations in the world: So neither and much less yet do the Shepheards or [Page 12] Teachers believe, that the Judgment of God shall light up­on Jer. 2.10. 23. 1 Pet. 4. Isa. 3. 10. 59. Zeph. 3. Ier. 23. Ezek. 13. Mark 11. Isa. 40.65. Rev. 16. Mark 13. Isa. 28. Hosea 4. Iohn 17. 2 Pet. 2.3. Rom. 1.5. Tit. 2. Mic. 3.7. Dan. 7.12. Isa. 30.51. Ier. 9. Isa. 1. 5. Hos. 10. Barac. 3. Syr. 16. Gen. 6.7. themselves in the first place, by reason that the destru­ction the people came and was brought into, through their unacknowledgement of God, shall light upon themselves and their hypocrisie, Mat. 24.

Briefly these men and people that have forgotten all the works and deeds God did or wrought from the beginning of the world, they are conceited now as if all the earth were properly their own, and as if their false Prophets had al­ready taken the full possession and disposing of Heaven, unto themselves, and God (according to their perverse and stu­pid imaginations) had quite lost his Almighty Power over Heaven and Earth: Wherefore nevertheless the Devil will be exceedingly disappointed, as his members that will not suffer the Soveraignty of the Spirit of Christ, or of the Grace of God, to prevail any more, neither inwardly in their hearts, nor outwardly in the world, according to his right Judgement or Government: They know well enough al­ready every one according to his own wisedom and pollicy how to defend themselves; like unto those Mighties and Tyrants of old, that were ruined with all their strength, and drowned in the deluge, when the earth was likewise over­grown with violence and presumption, Fpist. Jude.

The people of this last and present world, who indeed 1 Ioh. 1.2. Ier. 2.17. Eph. 4.5. Ioh. 1.8.12 a Pet. 2. have no Communion more with God, but are rent asunder by the dissolving of the bond of the love of God, walking not at all in Christ the light of faith, but in errour or dark­ness [Page 13] of conscience; and thus having broke, or forsaken the Covenant of the Second or New Testament inwardly in Rom. 1.9. 12. 1 Cor. 1.3. 6. 12. Esa. 1.5.4. 8. 56 57. 58. 59. Exod. 20. Ezek. 5. 6. 15. 20.21. 43. 44. Zac. 9. Jer. 7.8.11 Luke 22. Mat. 27. 1 Cor. 12. 1 Thes. 2. 2. Ezek. 34. Zac. 10.11 Revel. 16. Jer. 5. 23. Acts 20. Ezek. 13. Mat. 24. Eph. 4. Gal. 1. 5. 1 Pet. 4. Mica. 3. Ps. 12.80. Jer. 7. Mat. 21.24 Mar. 11.13 Rom. 1.11. Mat. 24. Jer. 7. 8. Hos. 4. 10. Ezek. 22. Hab. 3. Psal. 94. Esa. [...] 30. Amos 5. Esa. 9. Amos. 9. their hearts or consciences, they are now Gods people just in the same manner, as were the Jews of old, who walked no more in the Law of Moses, nor lived after the Commandments, Statutes, and Ordinances of God, for any spiritual deliverance, and crucified and killed even Christ himself, the Son of God, for their Temple-Cause, and for their false worships sake, by the power of darkness, in their unacknowledgement of God.

The Shepherds of this present Babel, being divided into three parts, viz. the three unclean Spirits, Frogs, and Spi­rits of the Devil, that were never known, nor sent of God, Mat. 7. they have not the Word of God, but steal it one from another, and have so far perverted the Word of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, that the people that were deceived and seduced by them, do not any more at all a­gree among themselves, according to the Gospel of Christ, his Disciples and Apostles, for which cause the Judgement of God shall light on them in the very first place, by rea­son of the destruction of the poor, which for such a while hitherto hath been practised in the murdering Den of this false Christendome, throughout all places and countryes, for the maintenance and support of the hypocrisie of their distracted Religions, Luke 19. 20. Revel. 10. 12. 16.

And for as much as the Heathens, or false Christians, ought not in no wise to maintain their outward Temple-Cause, or false worship with rage and fury, therefore they have cause to look well unto themselves, now what they are about, in regard of these murdering Armes, which they have taken up one against another, only according to their own fierceness and revengefulness, as whereby they do not only pull the Judgement out of Gods hand, but they with­all kindle but the fire so much the more, to the utter ruine and destruction of the poor.

In which regard else, or by reason whereof, these wri­tings are addressed both unto the Parliament, and also to [Page 14] the King of England, lest by their unrighteous designs and purposes, and besides too, with the very sweat and Jam. 5. Nah. 3. Jam. 23. Hos. 4. Mar. 13. blood-money of the subjects, Amos 5. the substance and revenues which they take away from them, they do make them an utter prey and spoil, even to their own destruction; in the mean while soothing themselves, and relying upon the hypocrisie and lyes of their false Prophets, or their remissi­ons or absolving of sins.

For the same God, that in former times hath drowned such people with the deluge, is ready now to execute his judgement upon this present and last world, and upon their Gen. 67. Ep. Jude. 2 Pet. 2.3 2 Tim. 4. Shepherds, their False Teachers, which every one (this Sect or Religion) hath heaped up unto himself.

Given according to the Rights of God, his Judgements, which Jer. 5.8. is to be executed over this present Rev. 16. Babel, Zeph. 3. Isa. 47.