DISCOVERY OR DECLARATION. That the Judgement in behalf of the Fundamental Jam. 5. Deliverance of the Poor and Afflicted, the Faithful and Elect, ●is not at all to Psa. 12.72. begin with the Pope of Rome; but from the Mat. 24. House of God or His Sanctuary; for which cause also Luk. 18. God shall cut off both head and tail, both branch and stock in one day. The Honourable Ancient men 1 Pet. 4. are the head; but the Prophets that teach falsely are Ezek. 9 the tail; for the Leaders of the people are Seducers, and they which are lead by them perish: Isa. 9 Therefore shall the Lord with his sore, great, and long Sword, visit both the Leviathan, Isa. 27. that is, a straight Serpent, and the Leviathan, that is, a crooked, and slay the Dragon in the Sea. CONCERNING, The Heads, Judges, or Governors in Holland and England, as who Mich. 3.7. Wisd. 6. Zeph. 3. Revel. 13. 16. 17.21. Psal. 10.33 94. Isa. 8, 30: do build Zion with blood, and overthrow the Decree and Judgement of God, about the Fundamental Destruction of the Whore of Babylon; Yea, do all they can by their designs, humane Counsels and Devices, utterly to disannul the Eternal Counsel of God in that behalf, Psal. 33. LONDON, Printed in the Year 1660. GOD. A stumbling stone, and Rock of offence unto the Heathen, or false Christian, that do not believe the word whereon they are set. 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 Kingdom 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 ruin 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 Cornerstone, 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 rend in pieces, now in all their Sectaries and Parties, through the contentious practices 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, 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 bvilders of this present false Jerusalem, or unspiritual Temple, and unholy Priesthood, 1 Pet. 4. For that stately Building of the Shepherds, which built this present Babel, and made the Flocks to become a prey to all the wild beasts of the forest, 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 Judas. 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 perversely, only according to the Vision or Spirit of his own heart, much less according to his own Satanical, harebrained, puffed up, arrogant, and devilish presumption, Psal 12. 73. or to master the Scripture altogether, as is now adays the common practice amongst these audacious, unprofitable babblers 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 sheep's clothing, walking in the humbleness and decentness or glistringness of Angels, but being therewithal inwardly ravening wolves, and hirelings; yea thiefs and murderers of souls, deceiving the people, and outwardly painting, daubing over, or covering such of them as delight to hear their hypocrisy 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 Commandments of men; that say, thou shalt not touch, taste, handle this: things that perish all under the hands that have a show 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 intolerable Yokes, because of their false works and self-devised holiness, whereby God the foundation of 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 merely 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 freedom 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 Kingdom. For with God there availeth no deceived or enured practice of self-bred holiness, or Jewish righteousness, as not merely 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 superficial manner, only from without, according to the nature and practice of hypocrites and dissemblers, which make themselves acceptable according to the flesh, and neglect withal 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 hypocrisy, all things are now through the power and operation of Satan, turned lose 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 Zion, under the yoke 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 Holidays (whereby the flesh hath now gotten escape to all manner of naughtiness, and through the enticement and allure whereof, people are so extremely 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. jud. Colos. 2. ●… 3. 2 Tim. 4. Mark 13. ●… 2. 5. Sepulchers) 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, yielding 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 Kingdom 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 Kingdom, for those dreams which are merely 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 itself, by their false or pick-key-office, according to, or by which, the Devil through them absolveth now from, or forgiveth sins, to the utter ruin 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. Judas. The wisdom 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 aforehand, 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 falsely and perversely, 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 ways, or false worship, and for to maintain the same, such thiefs 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 lemma ourself, revengeful, Cainical, cruel, more than devilish uncessant practices 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 thiefs and murderers shall not be able to escape the fierceness of God's 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 increase of the land, the sweat and blood of the Subjects; and they endeavour Hab. 3. Joel 23. Ezek. 36. Ps. 89.119 Rev. 16.19 Zac. 5.10. jer. 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 reph. 1. ●●a. 14.28. ●at. 24. Pet. 3. ●sal. 12. ● Cor. 3. 〈◊〉 Judas. ● 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 disannul the Counsel of the most high, altogether only for lemma ourself 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 Christendom, and the ruin of the poor, that are destroyed in all places or countries, because of the hypocrisy of the evil, disunited, (disagreeing) practices 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 hypocrisy and lies of the Shepherd, Jerem. 33. upon their hypocritical show of holy ways and courses, which every one doth strive in his own Religion, Seat, or Party, to maintain and descend, 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. jude. 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. 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 Kingdom 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, Custom, 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 disannul 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 shall 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 practices herein, as their fellow-scorners and scoffers of old, in the days of Noah and Lot, whom God for that very cause afterwards drowned with the deluge, and destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven, Epist. Judas, 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 all their practices 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. jer. 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 far far worse with them, in regard of this present presumptuous government in the world, than ever happened 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 Designs, 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 Judgements, 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 show 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 itself 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 jer. 7. ●. Ez. 13.22. that in the first place they do inwardly in their hearts and consciences, resist the Grace of God, our Lord and Saviour Mat. 23.24 Tit. 2. Gal. 4.5. Rom. 5. 8. jer. 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 practice to the Council 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. Out of Zion there breaketh forth the beauteous Splendour of Psa. 59 God: Our God is coming, and holdeth not silence; a Devouring Fire goeth before him, and Psa. 50. about him a great Tempest; He calleth Heaven and Earth together Jer. 50. to judge His People. Given at the Hague in Holland, in the Year, 1642. 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. Judas as having forsaken God in their hearts or consciences, according to the Mystery of his Kingdom, do not believe that there shall be a Judgement: Yet for a fundamental change or removal of these present troubles and tribulations in the world: So neither and much less yet do the Shepherds or Teachers believe, that the Judgement of God shall light upon Jer. 2.10. 23. 1 Pet. 4. Isa. 3. 10. 59 Zeph. 3. jer. 23. Ezek. 13. Mark 11. Isa. 40.65. Rev. 16. Mark 13. Isa. 28. Hosea 4. john 17. 2 Pet. 2.3. Rom. 1.5. Tit. 2. Mic. 3.7. Dan. 7.12. Isa. 30.51. jer. 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 hypocrisy, 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 Sovereignty 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 wisdom and policy 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. Judas. A Servant of that God, Isa. 42. Act. 17. Psa. 89. 95. who calleth himself a Lord of Heaven and Earth, Isa. 66. The people of this last and present world, who indeed 1 joh. 1.2. jer. 2.17. Eph. 4.5. joh. 1.8.12 a Pet. 2. have no Communion more with God, but are rend asunder by the dissolving of the bond of the love of God, walking not at all in Christ the light of faith, but in error or darkness 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 God's 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 worship's 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 Christendom, throughout all places and countries, for the maintenance and support of the hypocrisy 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 Arms, 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 God's hand, but they withal kindle but the fire so much the more, to the utter ruin and destruction of the poor. In which regard else, or by reason whereof, these writings are addressed both unto the Parliament, and also to 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 hypocrisy and lies 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. Judas. 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. FINIS.