EVery sinne is as a sharpe sword, Sirach. 21. 1. Iohan. 3. Iohan. 8. 18. and doth so wound, that no bo­dy can heale it. For he that commit­teth sin is of the Devill, who is a lyer and murtherer from the be­ginning, with all those which doe not continue in the truth, but haue resi­sted God; Therefore hath he thrust and throune Epist. Iu­dae. 2. Petri. 2. 1. Iohan. 5. 2. Timot. 3. the hellish Angells out of heaven. Apocal. 12. Now therefore they which after his manner doe stirre up the most part of the world, Esai. 59. they doe heape sinne upon sinne, upon their owne selues. Sapient. 2. But they which inwardly in their Rom. 1. 2. [Page] hearts or consciences doe resist the grace of God our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Tit. 2. accor­ding 1. Petri. 1. 5. Roma. 8. 9. Iohan 12. Hebr. 10. 12. Apoc. 20. Esai. 29. 2. Pet. 2. 3. Matt. 5. 7. Lucas, 6. to the humble Spirit of innocency, Galat. 4. 5. 6. they walke not att all in the light; and doe outwardly exalt and promote themselues to be judges one of an other, 1. Corint. 4. and are already as much under the power of the Divell, as those scoffers and tyrants in the first world were; whom God by reason of their perverse courses over­whelmed with the Deluge, Genes. 6. 7. And espe­cially in the new Testament it is no where taught that any one shall revenge or judge his enemies. Rom. [...] ▪ Therefore principally they of England Ephes. 4. may according to the words of Christ, his Disciples 1. Cor. 11. and Apostles, judge and trye themselves, Ephes. 5. whether or no they be in the faith of Christ, or Rom. 11. Collos. 1. 3 Ierem. 23. 1. Pet. 2. 4. if Christ bee in them 2. Corint. 13. for they which have not the Spirit of Christ are not his, Rom. 8. And they which doe not beleeve the word of God or Christ, those shall according to that same word Matt. 21. 24. Marc. 12. 13. Ierem. 7. 8. 19. Nahum. 3. be judged, scattered and consumed. Iohn. 12. Which therefore to avert, noe false Prophets, Matth. 7. 24. no shewes of any outward Temple or false seruice of God shall helpe. And moreover no roueing, murthering, stealing, publique abomi­nations or bloodsheading, Hosea 4. 9. 12. shall be Hezec. 6. 11. 13. 22. Matt. 23. 1. Thes. 5. Luc. 3. 12. 17. Matt. 3. 13 covered, hid, or forgotten. By reason of which the day of the Lord is att hand, in which the Lord will cleanse his barne, and the chaff (namely, the chil­dren of iniquity, which would hinder his harvest; by whose meanes the good wheate is choaked,) shall be cutt downe and burnt in the everlasting Esai. 9, 27, 65. 66. fire.

The onely, eternal, incorruptible, invisible, 1. Tim. 1. 6. Deut. 10. 32. Ierem. 10. 32 50. 51. Mich. 6. 7. onely wise immortal King of all Kings and Lord of all Lords, Revel 19. viz. the strong, true and living God, Iesai. 10. 40. 45. 66. who from the beginning hath judged righteously here upon the face of the earth, which is his, Psal. 9 17. 18. 75. 89 96. 97. 98. and Revel. 17. 19. Ierem. 23. Ezek. 13. Rom. 16. Phil. 3. Psal. 89. Zach. 12. 14. Daniel. 7. 11. appointed the ancient people, Iesai. 44. will before the end of the world, not onely have destroyed the Babylonical Whore, but also revealed and over­throwne (Psalm 141.) the hypocrisy and lies of all the other false teachers, 2. Pet. 2. mercenaries, Iohn. 10. or Servants of the belly. Wherefore also he still causeth to be fought forth, according to truth and righteoosnesse, 2. Tim. 2. 4. and his Iudgement to be denounced: In regard of which 4. Esd. 11. 12. 15. 16. Amos. 3. Heb. 4. 10 Isai. 47. 48. Ierem. 50. 51. it is signified, according to the power of the living word of God, more and more, unto the Em­perour, King of Spaine and others, that are un­der the great Babel, Revel, 16. to leave the idola­try and witchcraft of their false Prophets, and to goe out of Babel, if they desire to escape the fierce anger of God.

But amongst the pretended Evangelical hypo­crits Ezek. 34. Matt. 24. Mar. 13. or false Christians, he hath not found to his Servant David, in no place, any help at all, concer­ning the full deliverance of the elect, Ierem. 30. as also neither faithfulnesse nor love, Ose. 4. nor faith, Galat. 5. Revel. 16. Titum. 1. 3 Psalm. 10. 52. 68. 94. Isai. 42. 48. 49. 60. nor justice, Luc. 18. Those envious, nay wicked, proud, angry, haughty and tyrannicall men, who in their doings or purposes desire not at all to looke principally upon the glory of God, nor upon the universall, temporal and eternal welfare of mankind, they should kill Christ himselfe, or seeke Matt. 23. Luc. 11. after his live, if he should begin to overthrow, ac­cording [Page] to the Zeale of the Lord, their outward temple-doings and false worship of God, whereu­pon, 2. Tim. 4. Ierem. 7. 8. 18. Rom. 1. 9. 11. Psal. 69. 109. Iohn. 2. Luc. 19. 1. Iohn. 3. Isai. 57. for the Salvation of their soules, they doe stiffneckedly and obstinately relye, as in former ti­mes the Iewes did.

But for asmuch as in this regard there is no pea­ce 1. Thessal. 5. For the furious, envious and bitter Cain in his generation, they in England especially, may looke very well to themselves, how to behave them, concerning these so long lasting troubles Luc. 21. Matth. 24. Psal. 2. 99. and insurrections of warre, whereby Satan is wholly set loose with rage and fury, Revel. 20. and to take heed, least they further trespasse and sinne, Obad. 1. in using ill those poore innocent soules, Ierem. 2. Rom. 1. the souldiers or the flocke of the slaughter, Zachar. 11. who, by the unjust, nay crafty, murtherous and traiterous designe, Ezek. 22. of the Scots, are falne into their hands.

For no body ought to be himselfe judge over ano­ther Rom. 12. 1. Pet. 2. Psal. 10. 94. Sap. 6. 1. Cor. 4. Seeing it is not onely against the new, but also against the old testamēt, and cannot availe nor subsist before God, the judge of all. Hebr. 10. 12. And because no wordly magistrats, no nor those, Amos. 2. 3. 4. 5. who in their office are by God himselfe appoin­ted to judge and to governe, have any power or licence, to charge the poore people and subjects, Isai. 1. 32. 53. with such a burden, nor to flay them, according as they please, for to maintaine their violent gouver­nement Mich. 3. invented by themselues, Amos. 6. there­fore this printed letter, sent thither once allready, Iam. 5. is before all other things very well to be conside­red: Eccles. 10. 35. It hath been directed many years agoe, becau­se of the troubles of Germany principally, to the two Princes Electours, of Saxen and Branden­bourg, [Page] but it belongeth also unto all the other pre­tended Evangelical Magistrats, Princes, Judges and Sap. 6. Rom. 1. 11 Mich. 7. Isai. 30. Matt. 29. Psal. 82. Isai. 8. 30. 50. Amos. 5. Ezek. 22. States there; who in their apostasy, hypocrisy, falshood, unbeleefe and prevailing iniquity, haue also undertaken to protect and defend themselues against the Counsel and Spirit of the Lord. Isa. 1. 8. 30. 31. Whereupon there hath been kindled such a fire, in that murthering den. Ierem. 7. 11. 15. 17. or bloody city of this false Jerusalem, Matth. 21. 24. Marc. 11. that in many places or countries there haue not been left neither men nor beasts, Zephan. 4. Esdr. 15. 16. 1. Cor. 12. Rom. 12. Isai. 59. Revel. 12. 16. 17. 1. To passe over in Silence, that the afflicted fellow­members, or those that are of the houshold of faith. Gal. 5. 6. by reason of such cunning despisers, Isai. 28, and inconsiderat violent men, are constrai­ned to remaine under the Babylonien yoake or abo­mination, and to be in danger, to perish eternally with body and soule, Dan. 12. which also will bring Ierm. 23. Act. 20. Matt. 7. Zeph. 3. 2. Petr. 2. Revel. 16. Habac. 3. Zach. 13. Marc. 13. Coloss. 2. Isai. 5. 29. 33. Psal. 12. 80. Nahum. 2. 3. Mal. 3. Matth. 13. their dreamers. (Epist. Iud.) the terrible ravening wolues risen in the flock, first off all into hell, as beeing such, upon whom men have relied concer­ning their salvation, and by whom Satan hath inti­ced to all wickednesse. Wherefore it hath beē writ­ten very sharply and powerfully unto the Scots, es­pecially, that for the maintaining, establishing or propagating of their Couenant, they should not Subject themselues unto the whisperings of such uncleane Spirits, the false prophets, in such a man­ner, as a time hitherto hath been done with the de­struction of the poore and miserable by other war­riours and tyrants, theefs and murtherers, Ierem. 7. 19. and principally by those in Germany, by whom all is so farre become a Spoile, nay quite a curse. Ierem. 2. 17. All which shall as yet be judged on [Page] the children of that wicked one Isai. 3. who have Deut. 32. Rom. 12. Tit. 3. Matth. 7. 13. 24. Rom. 2. 14 1. Cor. 4. 2. Thes. 2. Revel. 12. 20. 14. 19. 22. Isai. 9. 27. 65. 66. 1. Cor. 15. entrenched upon the vengeance of God the Most high. Psal. 94. Hebr. 10. and so undertaken, by their unjust purposes or envious doings, according to the working of the furious Satan within thē, to hinder, nay quite to bring to nought the harvest, wherein God according to his word and Gospel, will jud­ge the hidden things of the hearts; Who therefore shall thrust in his Sickle and cutt off many into the very hell, and execute vengeance in anger & fury, Mich. 5. and make all his ennemies his foot-stoole. Psalm. 110. Hebr. 1. 10.

GOD is just, and his word doth not lie. For Deut. 10. 32. Tit. 1. Hebr. 6. Iohn. 8. 12 Ierem. 23. Matth. 5. it is impossible, for God or for the strength of Israel to lie, 1. Samuel 15. Malac. 3. And he will have that same his word kept, or performed according to his councell and will, Matth. 7. 24. 25. According to which he hath dearly signified unto those in the second or new Testament, that they should not revenge them selves on their en­nemies Rom. 2. 12. 14. 1. Thess. 5. Wisdom. 6. 12. Psa. 10. 94. and judge nothing 1. Cor. 4 nor render evill for evill, but to leave all revenge unto God 1. Pet. 2. Who judgeth righteously and without respect of persons, Deuter. 10. and will not suffer vengeance to be taken from him, as a while hitherto divers have attempted, intending to hinder the King­dome of God, nay to bring to nought (Matth. 24) Dan. 2. 7. 12. Marc. 13. Revel. 16. his Judgement, concerning the universall redemp­tion of his elect, Luc. 18. When I beeing there pre­sent had put to mind unto the King of England, that what He and his Parlament had takē from the subject, for to kill and destroy one another, they maight have imployed it for to help their poore neighbours in Germany, He did answer, that it was true: Which those his adversaries, by whom he is killed, have not done, nor desired to regard the common temporal and eternal welfare of mankind: but they undertake after the fashion of the Jewes 2. Cor. 10. Rom. 1. 16. in former times, to set up an earthly and worldly Dominion, wherein the inward obedience within, [Page] the conscience towards God shal cease, nay haue no place at all amongst them: And besides this, the 2. Tim. 3. 4. 1. Iohn. 2. 4. strive and discord of the Scribes or worldly lear­ned men, whence originally all the destruction in whole EUROPE is risen, shall remaine. It agreeth therefore very ill, that such men who in regard of the hope of faith are quite separated from Rom. 8. Hebr. 11. God, doe hope the confirmation of their Common­wealth from those under the great Babel, namely Rom. 16. 17. Psal. 125. 146. from the King of Spain and his like, and approoue thereof, whereas they have killed ther King even for this cause, that, as they pretend, he had favoured the Roman Catholiks and complied with them. But there will be an ill end with those men that doe Epist. Iudae. Mica. 6. Iam. 5. Mica. 3. Malac. 3. 4. Isai. 57. Psalm. 10. 68. Amos 5. Hebr. 10. 12. Luc. 12. 17. 18. 21. Matth. 24. Rom. 2. 12. 14. Psal. 94. not obey, nor take notice of this present and last time, Dan. 8. 11. 12. but dare begin with the revenue of the country and meanes of the subject, the which they force and squeeze out of them and wast, accor­ding to their pleasure, such tumults and insurre­ctions, whereby the outward opposition groweth the longer the greater, and the inward fire, because of envy and bitternesse, becometh burning more and more. The true beleevers ought, according to truth and Justice, Psal. 89. 97. to looke upon God and upon the universall temporal and eternal welfare of man-kind, and therefore not to be judges themselues, 1. Cor. 4. For God suffers not venge­ance to be taken from him, Hebr. 10.

GIVEN
According to the vengance, Zeale and 2. Thess. 1. Isai. 9. 42. 51. 59. 63. Wisdom. 6. 12. Iustice of God, and beause of his King­dome and IVDGEMENT, Dan. 2. 7. 12. Isai. 47. 48. Revel. 16. 18. 19. ANNO 1651.