¶ THE HARVEST IS AT HAND, WHEREIN THE tars SHALL BE BOND, AND cast into the fire and brent. Math. xiii. D. G  
VUherfore here the word of the Lord (O ye gentiles) preach in the isles that lie far of, and say he that hath scattered Israel, shall gether him together again, and shall keep him as a shepherd doth his flock, for the lord hath redeemed jacob, & rid him from the hand of the violent, & they shall come and rejoice upon the hills of Zion, and shall have plenteousness of goods: which the lord shall give them, and their conscience shallbe as a well watered garden, for they shall no more be hungry, and when it is new builded and set up on this fashion, it shall never be broken nor cast down any more. jeromi. 31. B. B. Nevertheless woe be unto them that call evil good, and good evil. which make darkness light, and light darkness. isaiah the .v. D.   

The contents of this voke wherein is mentioned, the policy of popish priests, & what we ought to pray fore, and a comparison between them & the priests of baal also divers texts and sentences of the holy scriptures, to put men in remembrance of the wrath of god to come against all ungodly people. declaring also what man is of himself in the old Adam. what the Law is, & wherefore it was given. what Christ hath done for us, what promise he hath made and to whom, and who be the true ministers of his gossple. and also who be the deceivers of the people. and an humble petition desired of the kings majesty, and a discovering of titud of antichrists & likewise abrefe declaration of the joyful time to come. with ageneral absolution for our feigned speritualtie, whom I do most commonly name in the process here of marked mean or marked monsters, not only because they are marked in their bodies & sometimes wear disguised monstrous garments, but because their doctrine is marked also, for that that they would have the people to believe part of the holy scripture as it was spoken and written unto us, and some other parts thereof they would not have them to believe in the true literal sense, but would have the people to believe it & receive it, only as they do mark it & appoint it out unto them, and where as soumtimes do also name them marked monsters, it is because they are so shameless & so far waxen in their abominations, that they dare do all unspeakable mischief. Ose. vi. c. wherefore because no man knowing the word of god, may justly & with out offence name them to be any of the people of god, therefore I name them by such names, as be most agreeable to their convercation, knowing that all they which hath been of the mark, and be now truly converted, perceiveth this to be true, wherefore none of them, which knoweth true godliness ☞ willbe offended ☜   

☞ To the reader ☜  
Grossly compiled without any clerkly Eloquence by john Champneys, an unlearned lay mane borne in the county of Somerset, a lytyl besides bristol, having more affection in the plain setting fourth of the troth, then in along sophistical Ipocrystishe tale craftily uttered. wherefore I desire you to bear with my rudeness, in that that I have so grossly gathered certain places of the holy scriptures, and have even so likewise written them herein, to put such men in remembrance as be of god, and yet doth not much exercise them selfues neither in reading nor hereing of the holy scriptures, that by the mean hereof I may partli move them to use more diligence there in and also to be more earnest to god in their faithful prayer, for the assistance of his grace, both to attain spiritual power thereby to live acordenge to the true religion of the gospel of christ and also to have the true understanding of his word, by the gift of the holy ghost, in aperfyt faith, being established in anundouted hope, of all things promised therein, and not to be of awavering mind, and so be deceived by the sophistical ipocrytishe doctrine, which our marked monsters of their own minds doth set forth, but utterly to abhonre and despise it. gall.   

Like as all men which be of god moveth and procureth one another to seek the true knowledge of all godly leaving only of god by assistance of his grace in the holy scriptures, other in hearing or reading thereof, according to the commandment of god both in the old testament and also in the new. Esai. xxxiiii. jere. two. f. john. v. c. Col. iiii. d. Tim. two. a. and iiii. b. So likewise our shameless monsters would have men to believe, that their clerkly sophistical doctrine should sufficiently instruct the people, in the knowledge of the holy scriptures, for they themselves know not what the regeneration of the spirit of christ is, but what the devil and the subtlety of man's wit by out ward ning knoweth, that many of them be perfect in, and thereby they set forth their doctrine. Wherefore I have rudely in this little botke set forth the trouch as it is written in the holy scriptures, in a witness against their clerkly sophistical conveyance, knowing perfectly that all people which be of the elect of god & regenerate in christ, doth delit more in every part of the truth being never so rudely written or spoken, than they do in aclerkly sophistically, although he be never so pleasantly uttered, how be it our marked men set them forth apace, for now that they perceive that the high powers, will not suffer them to use their old abominations, they set forth new Ipochritish doctrine to bring their children asleep, and so to keep them out of the way, how be it if the children did know perfectly what nurscis they be that rock them, they would sleep no more in their cradles, but would rather lie in the bare plain ground with the elect people of god i christ, among whom god saith by the prophite Esai. xxxiii. c. ye shall not see people of astrange tongue, to have so diffuse alangauge that it may not be understand neither so strange aspeche but that it shallbe perceived, for all that be the true ministers of christ and have his spirit in them as saint paul and other the apostles had, despise their out ward holiness and clerckly learning as saint paul did. philipp. three b. for saint paul being learned would in no wise precahe or write any thing concerning the gospel of christ, after the manner of outward learning. i, cor. iib. and gala. i. c Wherefore be ware of the doctrine that is be side this, for to make many books it is an endless work. preacher. xii, d. but all scripture given by inspiration of god, is profitable to reach, to improve, to amend, & to instruct, in righteousness, that the mane of god may be perfit, & prepared unto all good works. the two timo. three d. for all the words of god are pure & clean, and he is ashelde unto all them that put their turst, in him. Wherefore friste know this that no prophicy in the holy scripture hath any private interpretation, for the scripture came not by the will of man, but holy mean of god spoke as they were moved by the holy ghost. y● two. peter. i d. and even so now the things of god knoweth no mane but the spirit of god, which spirit searcheth all things even the bottom of god's secrets, whereby we know the things that are given to us of god, which things also we speak not with words which man's wisdom or learning teacheth, but with words which the holy ghost doth teach. i. cor. two. c. praying always in spirit for grace merci & peace from god our father, and from our Lord Jesus' Christ. to be with all them which love the profession of his gospel unfeignedly. Wherefore our faithful prayers being mad to god, for the unyersal assistance of his graces, our most bounden duty is, to pray, for the preservation of the most Royal estate of the Kings majesty, my Lord protector's grace and all other of the kings most honourable Counsel that the kings highness proceedings may prosperusly take good effect to the glory of almighty god, to the kings honour and to the increase of all godliness, in the utter destruction of the whole Incorporation and power of all marked presthod, and to restore the people of god within all his realms and dominions, again freely in to the true lebertie of the gospel of christ, like as the godly King josias being young of age in the begining of his time, destroyed all the priests & prophites of baall, & of other false gods, and also restored the people being jews to the true worshipping of god after the law of moyses. As we read the iiii kings xxiii. and the ii of chronicles xxxiiii. Where with all god was well pleased, and is always with all Kings & high powers, which seek his glory, and the deposition & utter suppression of all such tyrannous Ipocrires as all our marked men be, which in tim past hath caused Kings & other high powers to assist than to execute their abominable devilish tirani, & to maintain all other of their abominations, which doth fare exced all other abominations, that any man may read of in the holy scriptures the hath beenn sense the begining of the world, both for long continuance and also for great delusion, namely it doth fare exceed the abominations of the priests and prophites of baal, for where baales priests be fore the reign of the said godly king josias, caused the people to worship Idols, our marked men have both caused the people to worship many more Idols, than ever baal's priests did, & be like wise worshipped themselves as Idols, and be also named the ministers of the gospel of christ, although they delight in habonndance of temporal possessiones, having names of dignity like temporal Princes and rulers, clean contrary to the doctrine of christ. math xx. d. &. xxiii. v. mark. x. ●. luke. xxii. c john. xiii. v. Pet. v. a. Which is an open presumptuons blasfemi of the gospel. and like as baal's priests procured the death of many of the true prophets of god, so have our marked men procured and sougth the death of all manner of people which profeste the true religion in christ, & like as baales priests did contrary to the ordynancis of god written in the law of moyses, so have our marked monsters done & yet dayli doth so far forth as they dare for fere of the temporal power clean contrary to all the ordinances of christ written in the gospel. and yet would still be naend to be the ministers of christ, be cause they can talk of god's word, and have many crafty arguments & sophistical disputations thereof, and therefore they say they know god, but with their deeds they deny him. Cit. the first chap. b. having but a similitude or vain shadow of godliness, but have openly denied the power thereof, the ii of Cim. iii chap. a. whereby they are plainly known to be the children of the devil and damnation. Ihon. viii. f and the first epistle of Ihon. iii. b. Wherefore God saith by the Prophet Esa i the xiiii chap. e. Let there be a way sought to destroy them which be in their father's wickedness that they come not up again to possess the land. And it is also written in the Psalms. cxxxvii. b O daughter of habilon, happy shall he be that rewardeth the as thou hast served us: blessed shall he be that taketh thy children, & throweth them against the stones: for the time is come that whosoever will not receive the true doctrine of Christ shallbe destroyed from among the people. Acts. three d. And the ungodly transgressors & such as are become unfaithful unto the Lord, must all together be utterly destroyed. Esa. i g. For the Lord Jesus' shall show himself from Heaven with the Angels of his power with flaming fire, which shall render vengeance unto them that know not God, and that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus' Christ, which shall be punished with everlasting damnation, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. The second to the thessalonians the first Chapter. d. In which power he is now come in spirit to be glorified in his Saints, and to be magnified in all them which believe. The second to the Thessalonians, the first chap. d. which is the binding of Satan and the first resurrection spoken of in the apocalypses the xx. chapter. a. b. that is, where as the true profession of the Gospel hath been so much persecuted & hated ever since the apostles time, that no man might be suffered openly to follow it. Now God will glorify all them that love it, for ever and ever, throughout all posterities. Esai. lx. c. And will clearly destroy the whole power of all the enemies thetof. Esay. lx. b. O consider this, ye that forget God. Psalm, l. d. And hold you still in the Lord, & abide patiently upon him yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone. Psalm. xxxvii. b. wherefore put nothing to the words of God lest he reprove thee, & then thou be found a liar. Proverb. the xxx a as all our marked men be, therefore keep always in remembrance, and submit yourselves to the commandments of god. Deut. iiii. a. xii. d. where he saith: you shall put nothing unto the words which I command you, neither take aught therefrom: for if any man shall add any thing to the holy scriptures, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written therein: And if any man shall minish any part thereof, God shall take away his part out of the book of life. Apoc. xxii. d, Nevertheless such is the disposition of man: for the first man Adam 
Man.  bore a wicked heart, transgressed and was overcome, and so be all they that are borne of him, The iiii of Esdxas the iii chap. c. for the imaginations of man's heart is evil even from his youth, Gene. viii. d. And is but earth, earthly. i Corin. xv. f. Endued with wit and reason. Genes. i. And subject to affection & lust. Gene. iii. And no man hath attained to the whole knowledge of his own sin. Psal. nineteen. d. For in the flesh of man remaineth no good thing. Roma. seven. d. Wherefore those things which men have in high estimation be abominable in the sight of god. Luke. xvi. d. For the natural man perceiveth not the things which belong to the spirit of God. i. Corin. two. chap. d. Wherefore it is undoubtedly to be believed, that all people remaining in the old Adam, being of natural digression, which be not yet regenerate of God, with the spirit of Christ, are thus far forth until this time. the subjects of the devil & abjects from God. Roma. viii. b What wisdom or learning soever they have, or what outward life soever they live, & knoweth nothing of the things of god. i Corin. two. c, the four book of E●dras the four b. Nevertheless reason and learning by the works from the creasion declareth and confesseth God, so that they are without excuse that so know God, and glorify him not as God. romans the first c. Howbeit no man, by any gift of nature may glorify God, or do any thing which is godly: for it is God which worketh all goodness in us, both the will, and also the deed, the Philippians the second. c. Wherefore, the only true & perfect remedy is for all reasonable people to seek of God in prayer, the regenation promised in Christ. isaiah. liv. d, John vi. c. Mat. seven. chap. b. and Luke the xi b. Whereby they shall have both the true understanding of his word, & also power in spirit to live always according to the true profession of the Gospel: for otherwise no man may be acceptable with God and a partaker of everlasting life with Christ. Math. xiii. c. and Luke. viii. b. For neither reason nor learning can declare the true religion in Christ wherewith only God is pleased and pacified by Christ: wherefore woe be unto them that are wise in their own sight, & think themselves to have understanding. Esay v. e. And preacheth or setteth forth any doctrine of the holy Scriptures, without the spirit of god, Esai. thirty. a. And cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, & that taketh flesh for his arm: & he whose heart departeth from the Lord, he shallbe like the heath that groweth in the wilderness: and as for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it. jeremy. xvii. b. But shall be as ignorant of the coming of the glory of the Gospel, as the most part of the Scribes and Phariseis were of Christ: for God hath wrapped all nations in unbelief, that he might only have mercy on all his elect. Romans the xi Chapter. e. for in the time of the Law, the 
Law.  high learned Scribes & Pharyseis being ignorant of God for their unthankfulness sake thought to establish their own righteousness by the law. Romans the ten chapter. a. Like as our marked men now being destitute of the spirit of Christ, thinketh to minister the gospel by their outward learning: for other knowledge they have not, but do therein now like as the scribes and Pharisees did, which knew not that the law was spiritual, and that it required more perfection than may be observed of any earthly man, namely in that that it commandeth, that we should not lust. Exodus. xx. chap. c. Deut. v. b, For who soever lusteth or desireth in heart any thing which is his neighbours, is condemned by the law. Math. v. c. For they knew not that the law was given to utter sin, and to show the imperfection of our flesh, and that thereby no flesh shall be justified in the sight of God. Rom. iii. c. Wherefore they were ignorant also of the promise made to them in the law: for there was never no promise of everlasting life made unto man therein, but only that those Isralites which did the things of the law, should live therein, Gal. iii. b. Receiving the benedictions promised in the law. Exo xxiii. d. Deau. seven. b. where Moses said unto them: if ye hearken unto these laws & observe & do them, the Lord thy God will love thee & bless thee and multiply thee, and he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, the fruit of thy land, thy corn, thy wine, & thine oil, & the increase of thy oxen, & the flockis of thy sheep, &ce. These & such other like were the benedictions promised of GOD to them, which lived in the law, so that the receiving of these benedictions declared what righteousness was in them concerning the law, nevertheless the doing of the things of the jaw did not help them to everlasting life, for that was given before to Abraham, & his seed by promise, Gen. xii. a. the xviii c. xxii d. so that all people after that time, which were partakers of everlasting life, drank of the same spiritual rock of faith which Abraham did, i. Cor. x. a. both in the time of the law and also before the law, for the inheritance of everlasting life, cometh to all people only by grace, through faith, Ephe. two. b for the law was but only added because of transgression, till the seed came to whom the promise was made (which is christ) Gal. iii. c. So that what so ever the law saith, it saith to them which are under the law, Ro. iii. c. for the law was a schoolmaster, till the time of christ, but sins that time, all people which be regenerate in christ, are no longer under the law, galath. three d. for the law is not given to no person which is made righteous in christ, by a true faith, having the power in spirit by the gift of the holy ghost, to love all the elect people of god, according to the commandment of christ, joh. xiii d. for the hole commandments of the law are included in the perfection of love, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of a faith unfeigned from the which things because the whole multitude of our marked men have erred, they are turned to bain iangeling about the law, & would be teachers thereof, & yet understand not what they speak, neither whereof they affirm. i Tim. i. chap. b. But be even such like teachers, as we read of Act. x b. that troubled the congregation in the Apostles time, which would have had sircumsition & the commandments of Moses law kept, which never no man else in his flesh was able to keep, but only Christ: wherefore the Apostles by one assent, wrote a contrary commandment that we should believe no such doctrine, but to abstain from things offered to images, & from fornication & such uncleanness, & that so doing we should do well. for our marked men which teach the law, observe not the law. Gala. vi. c. Neither they know not that Christ is thendt of the law, to justify all that believe. Rom. x. a. But they be very desirous of the benedictions of the law, & think themselves to be in the favour of god, because they have abundance of all worldly things, the first of Tymothy the vi. chapter. b. Unto whom saint Paul saith. Galat. v. a. That all those which trust in the law (and seek the bevedictions thereof) are fallen from grace, & would that all such teachers were clearly separated from the company of all Christian people. Galathas the .v. chap. b. For they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is damnation, whose belly is their God, and glory to their shame, which are wordly minded, philipians. iii. d, wherefore let us wholly depend of Christ, which hath fulfilled all things that 
〈◊〉  was written of him, in the law of Moses & in the prophets, and in the psalms, luke. xxiiii. E. which also hath all power in heaven and in earth, and hath made a general peace between god the father and us, and hath also put away through his flesh the cause of hatred even the law of commandments, contained in the law written. ephe. two. c. so that he hath clearly put out the hand writing that was against us, contained in the law written, & that hath he taken out of the way, and hath fastened it on his cross, collos. two. c and hath also established a new testmaent, not like unto the old according to the promises of god, spoken of by the prophets jeremy. xxxi. f. xxiiii, b. thirty. d. Ezechiel. xi. d. xxxvi. e. where he saith, I will put my laws in their minds, & in their hearts I will write them, and I willbe their god, and they shall be my people, and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: know the lord, for they shall all know me, from the least to the most of them, Ebre. viii. c. & x. c. Here ye may se & perceive plainly that the promise of this testament, is made only to them that be regenerate in christ, & thereby knoweth the true profession of the gospel, according to the doctrine of christ, mat. xiii. c. luke. viii. b For whosoruer knoweth it not being of natural discretion, hath no promise made within any part of the new testament to be saved by Christ, if he depart this present life in such ignorance: wherefore god sayeth by the Prophet Esay the ix chapter. c. All they which inform the ignorant people, that they be in a right case, they be disceivers, and such as men think to be perfect among them, are but cast aways, For it is also written. Esay thee, liv. d That all those people which shallbe saved in Christ, shall be taught of God, which words Christ himself doth also verify. Ihon. vi. b. and saith likewise, that they shall be all taught of God. And saint Paul saith. two. Corin. iiii. a. That the Gospel is not hid, but only among them that are lost, whom the devil hath deluded. Wherefore 
Knowsege  to know who theibe that knoweth the gospel, and who they be that knoweth it not, & whereby ye shall know them, as the scripture teacheth: ye shall have it expressed in this treatise hereafter following, specially who be the true ministers of the gospel of Christ, and also who be the disceivers of the people: for Christ sayeth. Math seven. c, A good tree can not bring forth bad fruit: neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit: wherefore he sayeth, by their fruits ye shall know them: for either the tree is good & his fruit good, or else the tree is evil and his fruit evil Math. xii. c. for it is not a good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit neither is that an ill tree that bringeth forth good frnte luke. vi, g. wherefore it is expedient and necessary to know, first what fruits these be that christ speaketh of, whereby all people may be known, that is to know, what good deeds they be which an evil man cannot do, and also what evil deeds they be which a good man cannot do First christ saith john. xiii. E, that all his elect people shallbe known by love, which they have one to an other, and saith also luke. xiiii. f. If a man come to me and hate not his father, and mother and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, & his own life also, he cannot be mi disciple, and whosoever doth not bear his cross likewise & come after me, can not be my disciple. And furthermore saith luke. xviii. d, who so ever receiveth not the kingdom of heaven as a child, shall not entre therein. And saith also. mat. xviii. a. Except we turn & become as children, we shall not enter in to the kingdom of heaven, wherefore by these things before rehearsed both the people of god & the people of the devil, are perfectly known, Fiyst all the elect people of god, are known by godly love, one to an other according to the sayings of christ before mentioned, which godly love cometh only by the gift of the holy ghost. Rom. v. a. And falleth never away from them which be regegenerate in Christ. i Corin. xii. b. So that envy and malice be sins which the people of God being regenerate in Christ, can not be infected with all: wherefore they be the principallyst evil fruits that Christ speaketh of. Math. seven. c. which no good tree can bear: for the spirit of God remaineth always in them that be regenerate in Christ. Esay lix. c. John, xiiii. b wherefore they can not do contrary to the commandment of Christ. Ihon. xiii. e. which is love, because they are borne of God, & his seed remaineth always in them, the Epistle of Ihon. iii. chap. b. But the people of the world can have no such perfection of love to the people of God. Ihon. x. c. For perfect love is the moast principallest gift of the holy ghost. i Cor. xiii. c. wherefore it is also the principalest good fruit which Christ speaketh of. Mat. seven. c. Which no ill tree can bear: & likewise as there remaineth in the people of God a perfect love to all them that be obedient to the Gospel of Christ, so is there also in them a spiritual hatred according to the sayings of Christ. Luk. xiiii f. Against all worldly affections & lnstes, both in themselves & in all other people, but specially against the whole conversation of almarked men, & other which despise or refuse the true doctrine of the gospel. two. tim. three c. so that the unfeigned hatred of all worldly affections & lusts, & the hole conversation of all merkt men & other which refuse the true doctrine of christ, is also a gift of the holy ghost, only to them which be of the elect people of God, for worldly people can not hate all worldly affections and lusts, wherefore the universal hatred thereof is also an other good fruit which no evil tree can bear, howbeit by this fruit the elect be not perfectly known but only to themselves, nevertheless by doing of the contrary, as by loving and delighting in worldly affections & lusts: the people of the world are plainly known to be the subjects of the devil, for who so ever loveth the world, or the things of the world the love of god is not in him, the first epistle of John. the second chap. c. And as for the bearing of the cross of Christ before mentioned, which is to have alway a spiritual patience in all adversities, tribulations and persecutions, & to rejoice only in them. Gala, vi c, Being therbi assured in a steadfast hope the secoud of Tim, two. chapter. b Roma. v. a, Knowing also undoubtedly the occasion why god sendeth such adversities, tribulacons and persecusyons to all his elect people, is likewise a principal gift of the holygost, and also the spiritual comfort and joy which the elect people of God have therein, unto that time the gospel be fully glorified, is clean contrary to the natural disposition of all worldly people: wherefore it is likewise an other good fruit which no ill tree can bear. And where Christ saith. Luke. xiii. d. That who so ever receiveth not the kingdom of God as a child, shall not enter therein: & sayeth also. Mat. xviii. a. Except we turn & become as children, we shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. This doth manifestly declare unto us, that all people which shall be saved in Christ, & receive everlasting life, shall receive it only by grace given of God, in the merciful promise made in Christ, without any assistance there unto of any of our own works. Ephe. two. b. For every one that entereth into the true rest of the Saboth of God, ceaseth from doing of their own works. hebrews iiii. b. And submitteth themselves as elect children, wholly to be taught & lead in their conversation only by the spirit of Christ, unto whom they give the honour of all godly instructions, so that they do not after their own imagination, neither seek their own will, nor seek their own words. Esay the lviii d Which the Scripture sayeth, Apoc. xiiii. a In such a song as no earthly persons could learn since the time of Christ, but only the number appointed, of whom there be some reserved by the merciful goodness of God, to declare the true everlasting gospel of Christ, to the glory thereof through out the universal world. Apo. xiiii. b. wherefore it is also a principal gift of the Holy ghost, which no worldly person hath neither knoweth of Thom. xiiii. b. And an other good fruit which no ill tree can bear, so that by these fruits before mentioned and not otherwise by any other outward appearance, both the people of God, & also the people of the devil be perfectly known to all them that knoweth the true doctrine of the spirit of Christ. Howbeit the worldly people which worship the beast & his image, yet unto this time, thinketh to know & to deserve what sorts men be of by other outward hipocritish works, wherefore they condemn the people of God in their judgements, as the scribes & pharisee is did Christ. though ix. c Because they seem not to them to be so holy in their outward appearance, as the worldly hypocrites do. Howbeit the best mean & way to know who be the true ministers of the gospel, and who be the deceivers of the people, if they be strangers unto us, so that we can not know them by their spiritual fruits before mentioned: then the surest way is to search diligently whether they preach the gospel in like manner as the Apostles of Christ did, and as Christ commanded all his elect ministers to do, that is only by the instruction of the holy ghost, & not otherwise. Luke. xxiiii. e. For that, that the excellency of the power of the ministration of the gospel might be Gods, & not ours. two. Corin. iiii. chap. b. So that all the elect ministers of Christ, give the glory and praise of the ministration of the gospel, wholly to the spirit of Christ, which is given to every one of the elect people of God, which shall be saved in Christ. Act. two. f. & the first. Corin. xii. b. Wherefore whosoever preacheth the Gospel after any other manner then only by thinstruction of the spirit of Christ, is a disceiner, whom the spirit calleth Ihon. x. a. A thief and a murderer, for that that he taketh upon him to enter into the sheep fold of GOD, which is his word contained in the holy Scriptures, by another mean and way then by the most holy Spirit of Christ, which is the only door whereby all the elect people of GOD entre into the true knowledge of the holy scriptures, so that all our marked men which preach without his spirit, are spiritually both thieves & murderers: for they are thieves, because they take from Christ that which is his, that is the ministration of the word of God, which ought only to be ministered by the power of the spirit of Christ: for otherwise as by outward learning, or any other mean or way, no man can minister it purely and truly, the first to the Corinthians, the second chapter. b. c. According to the Commandment of Christ. Wherefore, our marked men are also Murderers, because they do as much as in them lieth, spiritually to murder all those souls to whom they have so preached. For likewise as we have but one Christ, so is there but one true doctrine of Christ, and but one spiritual conversation for all people to keep, which be regenerate in Christ. Ephe. iiii. a. Phil. iii. c. For all our marked men which inclyn not unto the good words of our Lord Jesus' Christ, & to the doctrine which accordeth to godliness, are puffed up with the delusion of the devil, and knoweth nothing that is good, but wasteth their brains about questions & arguments & strife of words, with many vain disputations after their corrnpte minds, being clearly destitute of all true knowledge. i Tim. vi. a. Nevertheless all true ministers of the gospel of Christ, seeketh with most diligence to have all people to come to Christ: that is, to believe all the promises made in Christ, and to seek of God by Christ, all things that he hath promised. Whereof the most principal thing is to be regenerate of god with the most holy spirit of Christ, without the which spirit no man can entre the kingdom of God. Ihon. iii. a. That is, no man can know the thing that is godly, neither wherewith GOD is pleased. i Corin. two. c. Wherefore it is most needful & expedient for all people having the gift of natural reason to examine their conscience surely and plainly by God's word, either in hearing or reading thereof, & so to know themselves what estate they be in: or who soever hath not his conscience agreeable there unto, wholly & directly without other wresting or writhing thereof, hath no promise made within any part of the holy scripture to be saved in Christ, but the wrath of God remaineth upon him. Ihon. xii. g For although that the apostles would that the Elders of the congregations in the primative Church of Christ, should be are with the weakness of the jews which received the Gospel at the beginning of their conversion in their scrupulosytie for eating of meats and other like things, yet nevertheless they would not suffer any of them to continue in the congregation which converted not, after certain admonitions from all kind of such bondage. Tit. iii. c. But utterly expulsed them out of the congregation, & all that taught any such doctrine to lai any manner of yoke of bondage upon any of the congregations. Gal. two. a. more than that which the Apostles themselves had taught: wherefore they commanded, that if any man preached or taught any other doctrine although it were Turrian Angel from heaven, we should hold him accursed. gall. i. b Wherefore here is to be noted, that all they which minish any thing fro or addeth any thing more to the Apostles doctrine, then that which they and the Euamgelistꝭ and the patriarchs & prophites have written unto us, are accursed of God. Apoca. xxii d. which saint Paul calleth other doctrine, because there is other things in it, then that which the holygost teacheth: For the Apostles of Christ were the last people that God appointed to write scripture, whose doctrine shall remain to the worlds end. Act. i. a. Roma. x. d Wherefore, whosoever believeth any man's imagination concerning the doctrine of the holy scripture, thinking that by any exposition, other written or preached, he may have the true understanding thereof, may be well likened to such a blyude man, which being without eyes thinketh to see with an other man's eyes if they were set in to his head, and considereth not that the sight of the eyes is a gift of nature, only to them, in whom naturally they be, & that no man's cunning can do any such works: much less than may any man's doctrine either written or preached make them which be but natural men to see & perceive the spiritual light of god's word. Before that time they be regenerate of God, & after regeneration, all those people in whom the spirit of Christ remaineth, have no more pleasure in man's clerkly curiosytie in the doctrine of the holy spirit, than a natural man hath being unlearned, & is very desirous to have the knowledge without book by heart, of some thing that is written, & one that should read it: & so teach him, doth sing it to him in pricksong, having much fine descant there in, by the mean whereof he doth not perceive the words perfectly which he desireth to learn by heart: in this case he that were so taught, would think that he had a froward schoolmaster, & even so likewise do all the elect unlearned people think, when any man maketh long clerkly protestation & sircumstaunces in the doctrine of the holy scriptures, because it hindereth them from that which they would learn by heart, that is the true literal sense of the holy scriptures as they be written. For the true understanding thereof is given them of god. Esa liv. d Ihon. vi. e. and. x. a. whensoever they hear the true literal sense there of spokrn, being written for our instruction. Wherefore they delight not in such clerkly curiosity of men, but do utterly abhor it, because so many men have been deceived by it, and do note also much presumption in all them that use it, because saint Paul & all other which were godly refused it, the first to the Corinthians the second chapter. a b. and to the Galat. the fryst. b. c. For like as the natural reason of man discusseth all reasonable earthly things, so doth the spirit of Christ only discuss all godly things necessary to be known unto Galat. the first Epistle of Ihon. two. c d. & the first to the Cort. the second Chapi. c. Wherefore like as reasonable men do not commonly use to shut the doors & windows of their houses in the mids of the fair day light, & so burn candles and other lights: no more do the elect people of god being regenerate in Christ, refuse the spiritual light which they have of God's word by the spirit of Christ, and seek it by men's imaginations. And furthermore, like as reasonable people think it folly to burn candles & other lights where the day light may sufficiently serve: So likewise all people which be regenerate in Christ doth think it devilish madness for any man to trust in man's doctrine, because Christ hath promised. Mat. seven. b. Luke. xi. b. Ihon. xvi. f. a good spirit, & all things else needful for our salvation, to every man which saketh it in faithful prayer of his father in his name: wherefore it seemeth to us which be regenerate in Christ, that all such men which saketh it not of god, according to the doctrine of the gospel, do not regard the life to come, or else mistrust the promises of Christ. & believe men better than they do Christ: For no man living is able to prove that he hath sought it of God in a true faith which hath it not: for at this present time god is so merciful too offer it to all people, which have not openly blasphemed the holy ghost, and yet but a small number in comparison to the multitude do receive it, wherefore his wrath will shortly be known. Howbeit, in all those people which be be regenerate with the spirit of Christ. the wonderful works of God are seen at this present day. For what is a greater miracle then the whole & clear alteration of the heart of man, which may undoubtedly be perceived in all them which be regenerate in Christ: For the old stony heart is clean taken out of all the people of God, & they have a new heart given them of God, which is always to the spirit of Christ. Ezechiel. xi. d. & the xxxvi l. & the hebrews the viii. c. and the x. c. So that in whom so ever the Spirit of Christ is, that person can not be unfruitful: For by their spiritual fruits that they minister one to another, which is love, joy, peace, longsuffring, gentleness, goodness, faythefulnesse, meekness and temperancy, they may both know themselves, & also be known to all other godly people, and not otherwise. For no man is known by any outward appearance after the flesh. John. seven. c. two. Corin. b d Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. two. Corint. v. d. whose whole delight and conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for our Saviour jesus Christ, philippians the iii Chapter. d. For we confess ourselves to be as strangers in this life, using the things of the world as though we used them not, the first to the Corinthyans' the vii Chap. e. Not doing our bodily labour with the respect of our own lucre, but for that we would not live idly, & also to have wherewith to help the impotent members of Christ, neither loving the world, nor the things of the world, but receiving all needful necessities of the body in worldly things, giving God thanks, without any scrupulosytie or grudge of conscience: For all the creatures of God are good, & nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanks giving. i Timo. iiii. a. For like as God doth forbid all men from the loving & inordinate using of worldly things, so likewise doth he permit all his elect people their bodily necessities of all worldly things, & when soever of two evils, the one can not be avoided, God permitteth the less for the eschewing of the greater in all earthly things. Mat. xii. a. Mar. two. d. Luk. vi. a Gen. nineteen. b. Wherefore the scriptures sayeth. i. epist. of Ihon. two. chap. e. If ye know that Christ is righteous, ye know also that every one which followeth righteousness; is borne of him: for every one which loveth Christ, loveth also all people which be regenerate in Christ. Ihon. v. a not only in words, but in actu all deeds. ep. Ihon. iii. c. for all people which doth the contrary be the children of the devil. ep. Ihon. iii. b. By whose delusion our marked men have so long deceived us: for the just proof whereof, if it may please the Kings majesty, by the godly godly advise of my lord Protectors grace and other of his 
Pelition.  honourable counsel, to grant and permit like liberty to some one of them being of small reputation & learning, which be now regenerate with the spirit of Christ: as was granted to Elias, in the time of Ahab, King of israhel, as we read the third book of Kings, the xviii. chap. That like trial as was between the said Elias, and all Baal's prophets, by the offering of sacrifice, may be now openly and only by the holy scriptures written, after the true literal sense: between one such of the elect in Christ & the whole multitude of our marked ministers: that likewise all the multitude of them, now may confer their lernyngꝭ together: or severally whether they list, & then to be openly & plainly known & seen, whether they can show the word of God written after the true literal sense, for the clear discharge of their conscience, for their doctrine & conversation, ye or no: and if they can not, all men ought to refuse & to despise their doctrine, how clerkly or eloquently soever it be uttered: and none otherwise to accept them but as the ministers of the devil and the Beast, whose mark they bear. two. Corin. xi. c. jude. c. d. e. And on the other side if the compiler hereof, a poor lay man, & of small literature, be not able by godis assistance, only by the power of the Spirit of Christ, to show the word of God written in the true literal sense, both for the clear discharge of his own conscience & conversation, & also of all other that be regenerate in Christ, let it be death unto him. Wherefore in so much as the people being present with king Ahab, converted, & confessed God, when they saw that he sent fire from heaven to consume that Sacrifice which Elyas offered, & wereful certified that he alone was the true Prophet of God, and that Baal's Prophets being. ccccl. were all false teachers, because their Sacrifice which they had offered remained whole unbrent. How much more than now should the word of God written, be a sure undoubted trial in the plain literal sense for all Christian men to believe, and so thereby also to know, who be the true ministers of the gospel of Christ, & who be the deceivers of the people. Wherefore if such trial may be permitted in manner afore said, who so ever should then mistrust it to be a good & a sure trial, & worthy to be belened of all people, his blindness were very wonderful, because we have no certainty of the truth but by the holy scriptures as they be written unto us, and by the gift of the holy ghost. Wherefore if our marked men, having much learning, had also the gift of the holy ghost in them, as they have not, it were not possible for any man to disprove their doctrine and conversation with the holy scriptures written, which were ordained & preserved unto us by the holy ghost Wherefore the clear confutation of them and also of their doctrine & conversation, with the holy scriptures written, by one man of small literature, shall manifestly declare the incomprehensible power of God. Deuteron. xxxii. e. against whom nothing can prevail, & in whose doctrine like as he that fulfilleth the whole law, & yet faileth in one point is guilty in all. james.. two. c. So likewise he that hath a faith to believe part of the holy scriptures in the literal sense as they be written unto us, & believeth not all his faith is unperfect. For Christ promised not that any man should be saved for the belening of part of the gospel, but for the believing of all things which he promised therein, doing all things also in spirit which he commanded in the establishment thereof. mat. xxviii. d. Whervuto the promise of everlasting life is made, and not otherwise: for God doth abhor all vain hope, jeremy. two. g. which is not established in a perfect faith, wholly agreeable unto his word Ephesians the four chapter. c. Wherefore if we should believe any man's opinion to be good & godly doctrine, in any thing more or less than is written within the holy scriptures, or in any thing contrary to the true literal sense thereof, whereby should we know whose opinion we ought to believe. For every part of the holy scripture spoken by the holigost. for our instruction is of like authority. and may no more be altered from the literal sense in one place then in an other. But I speak not of the parables which christ spoke to the high learned Scribes & Pharisees, the predecessors of our marked men, to whom they do succeed in like power of the Beast, being of a long time ascended out of the bottomless pit. Apoca, xiii. a. and. xvii. b. But I speak of the plain declarations which Christ made of all parables to his Disciples: For he declared all things plainly unto them. Mar. iiii. c. And so likewise all other parts of the holy scriptures be evident and plain to all them which have the same gyste of the holy ghost, which the holy scriptures were spoken by. Ihon. xvii. c. d. howbeit if any part thereof be altered from the true meaning of the literal sense, we are uncertain what to believe more of it, for because that then diverse men might make diverse interpretations, as they have done in times past. And few of them agree one with another, & yet every man coloured his opinion with the holy scriptures. And he that had most sophistical conveyance & temporal power to maintain his opinion with all, was best believed: So that our marked men having the upper hand, suppressed the truth always by terrible imprisonment and death: For they made the fire to defend them against all those people which professed the true religion of the gospel of Christ. Wherefore whosoever believeth any part of their doctrine to be good & godly in any thing which is contrary to that that is written within the holy scriptures after the plain literal sense thereof, is clearly destitute of all true belief. For no man hath authority to alter the literal sense of the holy scriptures contrary to the other manifest scriptures written. For that was the invention of the devil, and executed by our marked men, & other such his ministers: whereby they deluded all people. For of the holy scriptures there is but ove true sense which is directly & plainly expressed in the letter thereof, being compared together: so that there is no part of it repugnant one against another. But because that natural men can not do that which the scripture commanndeth in the letter, therefore they believe not that the literal sense is always true: For they eonsider not that there is a new creation by God above nature, and that every man which in Christ is a new creature. two. Corin.. v. Chapter. d. shapen and formed in righeteousnesse and true holiness, to the Ephesians the four Chapter, c. And that thereby they do that which the letter of the holy Scripture commandeth. For they understand not that Article of their faith, that the true catholic people in Christ do the will of God by the power of the holy ghost. John. iiii. c. And that only by that law of the spirit of life, Christ hath delivered us from the law of sin & death. Roma. viii a. Neither they perceive not the division between the spirit & the flesh, because the spirit of Christ is not in them. For it is not possible for any man to discern the operation of that which he knoweth not of: Wherefore that was the most principallest part of our marked men's doctrine, to make the people to believe that there was no such spirit given unto man whereby he should remain righteous always in Christ, the Epistle of Ihon. iiii. a. Which is the most devilish error that may be, because it breedeth a a doubt in all them that be infected there with, whether the Holy Scripture be true or not, being written by men having but the very self same Spirit of Christ that all other reasonable people hath, which shall be ever lastingly saved in christ. Act. two. f. the first Corin. xii. b. notwithstanding in outward ministration, the Apostles had power to do that which other members of the same mystical body of Christ can not do: as in doing of miracles, & other things. Like as in a corporal body, every member hath not one office, neither one member can do the offece of an other, nevertheless, every lively member of a corporal body hath life & feeling in them. And even so lywyse every member of the mystical body of Christ hath one spirit & one intelligence of the word of God and one purpose of heart in all godliness, the first to the Corinthians the xii. chapter d. Ephesians the four a. c. ezechiel. xi. d, and. xxxvi. f. So that, advisedly & willingly they do nothing against the will of god. the Epistle of John the iii chapter. v. Therefore the holy Scriptures in the true literal sense is sufficient for their outward instruction in all godly doctrine. For within the letter of the New Testament there is sufficient instruction concerning the true Religion of the gospel, among all them which believe it to be true in the literal sense. And who so ever doth not so believe it, believeth nor knoweth nothing that is good. Luke. xvi. g. i Tim. vi. a. but may goloke for unwritten verities among these unneedful ministers our Marked Preesthod. For what less devilish presumption is it to think the holy scripture unsufficient or unperfect in the literal sense for all godly instruction, but even a plain denial of Christ. For Christ is included in the word, and the word in Christ. John, the first chap. a. Wherefore to think the word insufficient, is to think Christ is insufficient, & also the holy ghost to be unperfect, which wrought always in them that wrote it. by whom also it hath been always preserved, & shallbe to the worlds end. John. xv. c. Act. i. a. Ro. x. d. Which scripture doth also manifestly & plainly declare unto us, that the Apostles left nothing unwritten which was profitable to our faith, but have declared the whole counsel of God, being needful for us to know. act. xx. d. e. g. nevertheless like as we have promises of mercy in Christ, so have we warning by Christ. Math. xxiiii. Mark. xiii. Luke. xxi. that many should come in his name saying: I am Christ: & should deceive many etc. Wherefore note this, that Christ meant not that many should name themselves Christ, as it were by their proper names: but this word Christ hath this signification, to be anointed of GOD, or to have a godly power: For jesus was anointed of god: and had also the godly power in him. Wherefore he is called Jesus' Christ, an only saviour anointed of God, for the justification of all his elect people from sin. Mat. i. So that all those men, which hath taken upon them any part of his office in remission of sin, saying they have power given them so to do, hath in so saying said they were Christ's themselves, because they take that upon them which was appointed by GOD only for Christ to do. Nevertheless by the regeneration of the spirit of Christ, all the elect people of God have power to know & to declare whose sins GOD hath forgiven in Christ, & also whose sins he doth retain to judgement. For the Spirit of Christ is the only key of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was promised to the faith of saint Peter's confession. Mat. xvi. c. For faith is the gift of God & maketh us righteous. And the gift of the holy ghost which is the Spirit of Christ, maketh us perfect both in knowledge and power to do the will of God in spirit. But faith of itself hath neither perfect knowledge of the holy Scriptures, neither power to do that which the Scripture commandeth: for that cometh only by the gift of the holy ghost after faith, sometime immediately, as we read. Act. x. g And of the good thief, Luke. xxiii. d. and some time long after. For there were diverse congregations in the Apostles time which were baptized and received faith in Christ, long before they received the gift of the holy ghost, as we read in the Acts the viii chapter. c. the nineteen. a. How be it, their knowledge was always unperfect until that time they were regenerate with the Spirit of christ. i. cor. three a. viii. a. For his Spirit is the oil which the wise Virgins shall take in their lamps of faith, to meet with the true Bridegroom Christ. Mat. xxv. a. And is also the ointment, which teacheth us all godly knowledge. Ep. John. two. d. wherefore. s. james. v. c. would that the people which were diseased, should anointed there with, which ointment cometh most commonly upon the elect people of God, by prayer in faith, and by laying on of hands of the elect ministers of God in Christ, in like manner as we read, Act. viii. chapter. c In which chapter is also mentioned the request of one Simon which offered the Apostles money, to have had like power to have given the Holy Ghost to whom he would, by the laying on of his hands. notwithstanding the Apostles refused his money, and also declared unto him that he had no part of that ministration. Nevertheless since that time, our marked monsters having the full power of the Beast in them, have ordained other things in stead thereof to minister to sick people, & ask the ministers of Christ no leave. And do use also to minister to them in childhood, a certain oil or grease, which is commonly called the Confirmation of their baptism, making the ignorant people to believe that that is the gift of the holy ghost, like as Mahomet made the people to believe that the holy ghost in the likeness of a dove. taught him what doctrine he should teach the people. Howbeit, the delusion of Mahomet is priests now at this present time is not so much to be marveled at, as the delusion of our marked men. because Machometes priests do live according to their profession, & also th' 〈…〉 doctrine is agreeable to those Scriptures which be written unto them: but our marked men live clean contrary to the true profession of the gospel, and contrary to the example of Christ, & of all his Apostles, & also ministereth crafty doctrine, contrary to the holy Scriptures written. Wherefore the accepting of them as true ministers of the Gospel, is not only a declaration of ignorance in godly knowledge, but also a declaration of blindness of natural reason. For how may reason conceive truth to be in them, in whom so much falsehood is found. Wherefore what worldly affections so ever we have to them, we ought only to be ruled by the word of God written, using them but like as natural men do use the members of their natural bodies. For a natural man which hath rotten teeth in his head, that doth never rest from painful ache, will seek a remedy: but if he can have none, he will have his rotten teeth drawn out of his head, rather than to have all his body continually disquieted. And even so likewise our Marked men are like unto rotten teeth: for they can not minister the word of God as they ought to do. And as for the spiritual ache, which all godly people have by them, we see plainly that the high powers have sought as much the reformation of them as may be, & yet they be as crafty as ever they were, disguising themself with sophistical hypocrisy, either new or old, as fast as ever they did, & the devil is as familiar with them as ever he was: Wherefore God send us remedy of them shortly. Howbeit, most men be in like case with them as women be with their Parrottes: for women use much diligence to make their Parrottes to speak, & yet with all their diligence. they can not make them to talk so reasonabli as a reasonable creature can. And no more can no man make those ministers which be only appointed by men to declare the true meaning of the word of God, so plainly and truly as it ought to be, whatsoever be devised for them. For the true understanding of the holy scriptures is as dyffuse to them, as the words of a clasped book, which no man openeth. isaiah. xxix. c. For God hath sent them strong delusion, that they should believe lies, because they received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. two. Thess. two. chap. c. For they are clouds without water & trees without fruit at gathering time, being twice dead. wherefore god shall pluck them up by the roots: For they are like the raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame: They are the wandering stars, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. jude. d. For in so much as God promised but one Jesus' to be Christ. Gala. iii. c. A full satisfaction, redemption and sustification of all his elect people from sin. hebrews. x. c. As is before mentioned, all men may see and perceive plainly, what shameless Antichrists all our marked men be, which have taught the people to believe in others satisfactions, other instifications, and other remission of sin, denying also the power of the Holy Ghost, saying that the spirit of Christ was insufficient without outward learning, to discern the true meaning of the holy Scriptures, when the elect people of God did hear them or read them, which is an open blasphemy of the holy ghost, which Christ saith shall never be forgiven. Mat. xii c. Mark. three b. Luke. seven. b. Wherefore, whosoever trusteth upon their conversion, showeth himself to mistrust the true literal sense of the holy scriptures spoken by Christ, & written for our instruction. For like as God is merciful, according to his promise, so is he righteous according unto his word, and thereby shall judge the world. Ihon. xii. g. And by his word declareth also all things needful to be known to his people before it come to pass, Amos. iii. b. iiii. d. Which the world can not perceive. For what worldly man in the primative Church did believe that it was the will of god, that all his elect people in Christ, should be persecuted & hated of all nations of men, until that time wherein God will glorify the gospel: which time is also manifestly declared in the holy scriptures, both by the Prophets and also by the Apostles, nevertheless all worldly people both learned & other, are as ignorant thereof, as the high learned Scribes & Phariseis were of Christ. For the devil being changed into the likeness of an Angel of light bath given his power unto marken men his ministers. Apoca. xiii. a. By whom all earthily people have been deceived, whose incorporation and power, the holy scripture calleth the beast, because the spiritual whore of Rome, which corrupted all the people of the earth with her fornication, did sit upon their doctrine, & was maintained thereby Apo, ca xvii. a. Whose abomination God hath disclosed to diverse Kings and high powers, and hath put in their hearts to abhor & despise her. Nevertheless they have given her kingdom and power unto the Beast, until that time the words of god be fulfilled. Apo. the xvii d, That is now in the days of the voice of the seventh Angel, which beginneth to blow, in which time, the mystery of God shallbe openly published, as he preached by his servants the Prophets. Apo. x. chap. b. That is, that the elect people of God shall only with the spirit of Christ & the word of God written, clearly confute and confound the abominable cauteilous delusion of all marked men. two. Thes. two. chap. b. Whose power ascended out of the bothomlesse pit, and shall now be destroyed with all the glori thereof: for the whole beast shall be taken and confounded and come to nought, Isaiah, the xxviii. a. and the apocalypses the xix Chap. d. So that they shall be hated and abhorred of all flesh. isaiah. the lxvi g. For the time is come that God will utterly destroy them, because they have destroyed the godly people of the earth, the Apoca. the xi chap. d. Wherefore they shall be cast into the great wine fat of the wrath of almighty god. Apo. xiiii. d. For their cauteilous delusion shall prevail no longer, but shall be uttered to all men, the second of Tim. the second Chapter, v. For the light of Israel shall be the fire, and his Sanctuary shall be the Flame, and it shall kindle and burn up his thorns & briars in one day, isaiah x. d. That is, that the spirit of Christ, which is the only true light of all the elect people of GOD, shall so lighten and kindle knowledge in his elect high powers & ministers, that with the holy scriptures written, which is their only sanctuary, they shall clearly confute and confound all imaginations of Marked men, which is signified by the briars and thorns, because they be the most noious & unprofitable trees that groweth, like as Marked men be the most falsest and devilish people that liveth. And where it is said that they shallbe burned in one day: that signifieth that they shall be utterly confounded now at this present time, in the appearance of the second coming of Christ, according to the saying of s. Paul, two. Thess. two. chap. b. And also agreeing to the other scriptures before mentioned in that he half, so that iniquity shallbe taken a way out of the earth, and righteousness 
joyful time.  shall reign among the people, the four of Esdras xvi. e Psal. xlvi. b. lxxvi. a. For God saith by the Prophet, Esai two. chap. a. and Micheas. iiii. a. In the later days it will come to pass that the hill of the lords house shall be set up higher than any mountains or hills: yea, the people shall press unto it, and the multidude of the gentiles shall hast them thither, saying: Come let us go up to the hill of the Lord, and to the house of the God of jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. This shall the Heathenysh marked men see, and be a shamed Micheas. seven. c. For the earth shallbe full of the knowledge of the lords honour, Abucuc. two. c. And all the Islands of the people shall worship him every man in his place. Sophony the ii c. And God will make his people to have a good name and a good report among all people of the earth, Sophony. iiii. d, Therefore thus saith the 
N●t●  Lord of hosts: let your hands be strong, you that now here these words by the mouth of the Prophets, and be living in the earth in those days. zachari, viii. v. For the power only of the spirit of Christ shall reign over all the earth, so that there shallbe none other saviour named upon the earth but only Christ. Wherefore men shall go about the whole earth, as upon a field. zachary the xiiii chapter. c. And as for all rule, power, and might that is under heaven, it shall be given to the holy people of the most highest, whose kingdom is enerlasting. yea, all powers shall serve and obey him, Danyell the vii Chapter. g. For God will make his people glorious for ever and ever, and joyful throughout all posterities. isaiah. lx. c. Thus shall the hand of the lord be known amongst his elect people, and his indignation among his enemies, isaiah. lxvi. e. For all manner of people which by grace have gotten the victory of the beast, & of his image and of his mark, & of number of his name shall sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and shall also sing the song of Christ, saying: Great and marvelous are thy works, lord God almigty, just & true are thy ways, thou king of saints, who shall not fear thee, o lord, & glorify thy name, Apo xv. a. For all th'ends of the world shall remember themselves, & be turned unto the lord, & all nations shall worship before high, Psal. xx. f. Wherefore, be glad ye righteous and rejoice in the lord, & be joyful all ye that be of a true heart. Psalm. xxxii. c. For the Temple of God shallbe open, and the Ark of his Testament seen therein. Apo. xi. d. That is, that the people shall convert to the Gospel. & have clear conscience to god, having his word for a witness, which is the Ark of Christ's Testament. For unto them which have the Lord before their eyes, strength shallbe increased Esay. xl. g. Wherefore God saith also by the Prophet Esay, to all marked men, the xli f. Stand at your cause, and bring forth your strongest ground, & show openly what scriptures ye have in the true literal sense, to deferred your doctrine and conversation with all. For your subtle arguments may take no longer place, because the scripture sayeth, the first of Timothy the vi chap. d. your study therein is a false science and nought, and so be all you that use it, in any thing concerning the doctrine of the holy Scriptures. Wherefore now show your selves as confirmable to the plain truth of the holy Scriptures written, when ye shall fortune to comen thereof, as the devil your first provincial did, when he was confuted by christ, mat. iiii. v. For in so much as he being the author of that profession of your incorporation, dignity, and power, confessed the truth of Christ & of his Apostles. Mat. viii. d. Luke. viii. d. Acts. xvi. d. after that he was once confuted with the scriptures written. Be not you no longer more cumbrous and obstinate against the truth thereof now, than the devil was at that time, and alleged other things to be meant in the holy scriptures, then is expressed in the true literal sense thereof. For if ye do, all men will know shortly that you are worse, & more worthy of condemnation than the devil is: for belike he had not so much falsehood, or else he was not so foolish when he tempted Christ by the scriptures, to allege other meanings therein, then was express in the letter thereof: neither he defended not his own imaginations against the holy scriptures written, as all you marked men have done a long time. Wherefore now from henceforth suffer the people of God, wholly to purge out your old rottenleven, for other wise we can not be new dough in Christ: for a little of your leaven 
Ab●osucion  soureth a great piece of dough. i Corin. v. b. For your salt hath lost his saltness, wherefore there may nothing be seasoned therewith: for it is neither good for the land, nor yet for the dunghill. Luke. xiiii. g. That is, that all you marked men which have taught and affirmed doctrine against the power of the spirit of Christ, which all the elect people of God doth receive, shall not be forgiven, neither in this life, nor in the life to come. Mat. xii. d. Mark. iii. d Luke, xii. cha. b. Which is meant by your salt that hath lost his saltenesse. And where the Scriptures sayeth, that it is neither good for the land, nor for the dunghill. By the land is signified, doctrine for the people: and by the dunghill, is signified temporal worldly business: so that your doctrine & counsel is not good nor meet to be received among the people, neither in the doctrine of the gospel for their instruction, neither yet in temporal matters: For Christ saith, Mat. v. b. It is good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden down of men. For who so ever favoureth any of you, which blasphemeth the spirit of christ, is a partaker of your ill. two. Epist. of Ihon. c. Wherefore God commandeth all his elect people to depart out of your company, & to separate themselves clearly from you, and not to touch any of your uncleanness. isaiah. lii. c. two. Cor. vi. c. the first. Timo. vi. b. Apo. xviii. b. For your shame shall be discovered, and your privy abominable delusion shallbe seen. For God will avenge him on you, and will show no mercy to you, as he doth to other people, isaiah. xlvii. a. For you are the people whom god hath appointed to his wrath, within the Islands of this part of the world, whereby the name of the Lord might be feared, isaiah. lix. b. Wherefore we ought to have no more in number of you, to remain as ministers of the gospeil, but even so many as Elias suffered of Baal's Prophets to live when he had confounded them, by offering of Sacrifice, the third of the Kings. xviii. g How be it, it is to be thought, that Baal's Prophets had not so much sophistical conveyance to make their excuse at that time, as you marked men have now, or else subtle excuses were les regarded at that time, than they be now: for your abomination & crafty delusion, doth far exceed, and is much more than hath been found in any manner of people, since the beginning of the world. The particulars partly whereof, by God's assistance, shallbe more plainly expressed in another book here after this.  
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