Several PAPERS GIVEN FORTH THE HEADS of which are contained in the following TABLE.  
By GEORGE FOX.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1660.   

THE TABLE.  

I. SHeweth how the Lord is King of the whole Earth, and all Kings and Emperours have got up since the Apostles dayes among Christians; and of true Maintenance to true Ministry; And something concerning such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies.  
II. To whom the Scriptures were written, and the blindness of the Teachers and Professors that hath misapplied them to Christians.  
III. To all the Professors and Teachers of the Prophets, Christ and the Apostles Words, that they may see how they have lost their Glory, and that they may see who they are that must fit the Nation with Teachers, they must be such as the Prophets and Apostles cried against.  
IV. That the Powers of the Earth may see how the Innocent and the Righteous, and the People of God do suffer, and are persecuted, and are prisoned to death, and goods spoiled, and all this is done in the name of the Higher Power.  
V. Concerning trying the Ministry, and bringing the Law into a short volume that all might know it.  
VI. To the Judges, and Lawyers, and Ministers concerning discoursing with them of tithes, and our Hats, and thee and thou, and the Light and perfection which we are persecuted about.  
VII. Concerning serving the Nations freely, which is the way to answer the oppressed Seed of God in people.  
VIII. That all people may see who are Jesuite-minded and Popishly-affected.  
IX. Sheweth if people can stop the springs in the Sea, or the Sun and Moon from rising, or make Summer Winter; then they may say we can hinder the Work that God will bring to pass.  
X. To all such as feeds the Priests till they turn against them.  
XI. Concerning Swearing; Also concerning loving Enemies; Concerning the Sabbath; Concerning who are fit to bear Office for Christ, and other wholesome things.  
XII. showing that such Teachers( as say men shall not be perfect while upon Earth) are Teachers of windy Doctrine.  
XIII. Christians are not to wrestle with flesh and blood.  
XIV. Several Queries to know who were the first setters up of many Inventions and practices that are now used.    

First, Sheweth how the Lord is King of the whole Earth; and all Kings and Emperors have got up since the Apostles dayes among Christians; and of true Maintenance and true Ministry; And something concerning such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own Bellies.  
THe Lord is King of the whole Earth, who hath given all power in Heaven and Earth to the Son, and hath made him Judge of the quick and the dead, and hath committed all Judgement to the Son, and all things is to be done in the Sons Name who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, and that which is to be asked for, is to be asked in the Sons Name: And the Christians were not to do things in the Name of an Earthly King, or Emperour, or Protector, but that which they did, they were to do it in the Name of Christ, who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, who was to subject all Rule and Authority to himself, in whose Name things was to be done. And the Apostles said they was to set up the least in the Church to judge of outward things; so the setting up these Kings, and Emperours, and Protectors, and giving them the Names Excellency and Majesty amongst the Christians, hath been since the dayes of the Apostles among the Apostates in the apostasy from the true Wisdom of God and Life. And so the Pope hath taken the Tenths of peoples Estates to the Church, and he hath taken the Tenths of Tenths; and so the people have been willing in the times of Ignorance( in the apostasy) to offer it up that they might merit by it( though the Bishops lands was not Tythable.) And so when they had gotten the peoples Tenths, and the Pope the Tenth of Tenths, after a while they claimed it by a Law, by the Authority and higher Powers( so called) which the Pope had invented; and when they did not Pay it, they would take triple of them, or cast into prison, or both. And when the Pope which had the Tenth of Tenths in England was denied, the Kings took Tenth of Tenths, and then they sold the tithes to the Impropriators, and giving them a Law to take it and triple if they would not give it them. And now people, what is your free Gift come to? which in times of Ignorance and Darkness was given to merit by; and the Heads took it under pretence of merit; and now they have set it up by a Law, and take triple, and cast into prison till death if they will not give it them. So when the Kings that denied the Pope took the Tenth of Tenths, the Popes Wages that was Head of the Church, and when the Kings died, the Protector took Tenth of Tenths, and he was the Head; So thus they have taken away the peoples Estates in the time of their Ignorance; So they have taken that which people did expect to merit by; and they that gives Tenths, gives that which people did expect to merit by giving it to the Church, and they that take tithes, take that which people did expect to merit by: Now they that took tithes under the Law before Christ came in the flesh, the Tenth of Tenths, the Chief Magistrate did not go away with it, it was given for Levi and the Priests, the Widows, Strangers, and Fatherless; so the Protestants are not reformed from the Popes maintenance to the Tribe of their black-Coats, nor reformed from their Popish-Houses and colleges by which they make Ministers, and where they teach; them who are reformed cannot pay the Tenths to that they call the Holy Church, and its Ministry, Protestants, nor Papists, for they know they merit nothing by it. And why do ye make a Law that none must speak to the Priests, or ask them a Question going or coming from the Steeple-houses, or in it, and yet make a Law that all must maintain them, all must give them tithes, and so all must maintain them with tithes or Easter-Reckonings? Is this equal, and according to Reason? Did not Christ sand forth his Teachers like Sheep among Wolves? and he exhorted them to take no thought what they should speak, take no purse,  told them they should be brought before Rulers and Magistrates, should be scourged in the Synagogues, had before Counsels, and  told them that a Sparrow did not fall to the ground without the will of their Heavenly Father, and that the hairs of their heads were numbered; And the Disciples might have said, We( some of us) have Wives and Children, and thou sends us among Wolves; what will become of our Wives and Children? As our Priests cry now, who dare not go out among Christians now without a bag or yearly Stipend, or tithes, or both; and Christ sent forth his Disciples amongst Wolves, and they were not to provide, but they were to inquire who were worthy, and into what house they went, what was set before them they were to eat, and when they came back again to Christ, he asked them if they had wanted any thing? and they said, No: So these wanted nothing that went out among the Wolves and came back again rejoicing to Christ: But these cannot say so, that go out among Christians, for they cast into prison them they do no work for, for their maintenance; but these cries Wants, wants, to Protector, and Parliaments, and Courts. So this was the Law of Christ, they was not to take care what to speak afore-hand, they was not to provide for the maintenance for the Ministry, nor they were not to take thought what to speak, they were not to study, they were to love Enemies, they were not to hate them as the Jews did before them; they were not to swear, but they were to keep to Yea and Nay in their Communication, for the Jews had sworn before them; Now the Priests and Professors are the first-born of the flesh that persecute them that are born of the Spirit, and they that be in the flesh cannot please God; and so them that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution, as they do now persecute that lives out of Christ Jesus and talk of his words. And so all the Professors and Teachers in the whole Christendom that are so full of rage, bitterness, and persecution, and have not the humility, they must not have the honour. And so all the Teachers are now made manifest that imprison, and persecute, and spoil mens Goods that they do no Work for, to be such as Preach Peace to People while they do put into their mouths, who now prepare War against such as do not put into their mouths, whether he hear them or not hear them; whether he Teacheth them or not Teacheth them; if he put not into their mouths they will prepare war against him. And they that are carnally minded is death, of which death the Devil is the power of, who acts under him as an engagement to the satisfying of his lust, which do persecute Friends, when as if they should do the Will of Christ who destroys the Devil, they should love their Enemies; but such minding Earthly things are Enemies to the cross of Christ who serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies; who will serve you if give them tithes, Augmentations, Gleab-lands, Mortuaries, Easter-reckonings, Midsummer-dues, but take them away they will not serve you.  
G. F.   

Christ is the King, and all things must be done in his Name, who is the Anointed, who ends all the anointed Kings in the figure, and how that all Kings and Emperours have sprung up in the night, since the dayes of the Apostles among the Antichrists, and now the man child is come the Kings of the Earth wars against.  
FRiends, to all you that desire an Earthly King in England and Scotland and the Dominions belonging to it, who professes yourselves to be Christians, whether Presbyterians, which signifies Eldership, or others.  
First, Are you not worse then they were in the dayes of Moses? Secondly, are you not as blind as the Jews was? where did the Elders of old in the dayes of the Apostles which are now called Presbyterians, and the true Christians in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles, did they cry up any King but Christ, to have any King to rule over them but Christ? is not He the Head of the Church, hath not he all Power in Heaven and Earth given to him, must not all things bow down to him, and all things that is to be done must be done in his Name, in the Kings Name Christ? And did not the Jews when Christ was come, who was raised up from among their Brethren, Prophesied of should be a King? did not the Jews and Priests say they had no king but caesar, crucify chest the King, they that cried up any other king was no friend of Cesars, So now the true Christians and true Elders cries up Jesus to be the King the Head, and nothing to be done but in his Name and Power? are not they combined against by the Kings of the Earth, and such as cries up Kings do persecute them? and doth not the Priests & Presbyterians, and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King and will have caesar, and is not this the same nature the Jews was in, and do not they in this crucify Jesus to themselves afresh and put him to open shane, and crucify him in the Saints? is not all these Christians, Presbyterians, such as have the name of Eldership, worse then Samuel and hath not his mind, Samuel 8. And like unto the persecuting Priests, that cried away with Jesus this King, and says we will have no King but of our making; are not all these Elders, Christians, that will dote so much of an Earthly King, Traytors against Christ, who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him; now Elders if you say Peter said honour the King, & love the brotherhood, and honour all men, this doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them, neither do you red, though there was so many thousands convinced amongst them, that there was an earthly King amongst them, neither do you red that there were any Kings since the dayes of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians and the false Church the mother of harlots, that reigns over the Kings and Emperors since the dayes of the Apostles, that they have apostatised; And so since in the false Churches, Antichrists, false Prophets, Beast, Dragons Dominion, have they had many Kings, as you may red in the Revelation since the dayes of the Apostles, but Christ the King, the Bridgroom, the Lamb and his Wife should be known again, and he to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron; And all these Antichrists and Presbyterians, Imitated Elders, over them all will Christ reign, and these Kings that have been made; For Christ is King alone, and makes his Disciples Saints, Kings and Priests to reign upon the Earth, that they are all come to be Kings; These are true Christians, and will these have any more Kings among them but Christ, who are redeemed from the Earth and Earthly kings, and lives in Christ, who is the end of the Law, I say that is the false Church, that doth not live in the end of the Law upon the heads of the Kings, yea the end of the true Law the Jews had; And of this Church is Christ the head, much more the end of all mens laws, statutes they have invented, and doth act by their Kings and councils, but this hath been but among such that have the Prophets, Christ and the Apostles words, the sheeps clothing, but out of the life and power, that makes such work for an Earthly King and Earthly Powers, and will change as they change, these all quench the Spirit of God in themselves, they vex it and grieve it, these all deny the Light which Christ Jesus the King of Righteousness and the Prince of Peace that doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World withall, that with the Light they might see him, Christ the King and know his Power to reign, but they that hate the Light, which he hath enlightened them withall, will not have him to rule over them, neither professors nor Priests, Christ the King, but such an one as caesar is, and away with the Light, so will not have him to reign, away with the Light within, crucify it, and prison them that confesseth it, whereby every one might see the Lord, but itis that which shall make every tongue confess to the Glory of God at the last, and so we deny all them to be true Christians, true Presbyterians and Elders that deny Christ to be their King, but the Whore and false Church and of the Beast, Antichrists and in the Dragons power, which doth not cry up Christ to be the only King, who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, who is the head of the Church; & they that be true Elders true Presbyterians, which signifies Elders, they never go about to set up any Earthly King over them to rule them, for they live in Christ, and Christ is their King, and they are Kings, who is in the midst of them, who is King of kings, and Lord of Lords; so in the world there is Kings many, and Lords many, but to us there is but one Lord and one King, who are redeemed out of the Earthly before the World began, and own the true Eldership; Herod the king was mad at the child Jesus, he sought to slay all the children in Bethlehem of Judea, there is the fruits of Earthly Kings, and such a king would our false Christians & Elders have to help to kill the birth, the babes that be born of the immortal seed, & to persecute Jesus where he is brought forth, and the Jews in the Spirit of whom Christ is King; the outward Christians and outward Jews they will have caesar and no king but caesar, and crucify Jesus, away with this man, he shall not reign over us, but we will have such a king as caesar was that will not have Christ to reign.  
And thus the Kings of the Earth band themselves, and the Princes are assembled together against the Lord and his Christ, Let us break their bands a sunder and cast their cords from us, He that dwell in the Heavens shall laugh them to scorn, the Lord shall have them in derision, the Lord shall speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure, saying to these Kings and Princes, I have set my King upon Sion my holy mountain, Psal. 2. Melchesedeck king of Salem Prince of Peace, before the Law he was a figure of Christ, The King, the Prince of Life that ends the Law, and destroys the devil the author of strife and wars and ungodliness and unrighteousness, John 14. And destroys death and the devil, and the Power of it and the darkness, he is the Prince of Life and the King that hath all power in Heaven and Earth, that destroys the devil and his power; And the kings of Edom Esaus stock, which the children of Israel when they grew they would have kings like other Nations, Psal, 48. That when people was gone from the Lord God who is the King of the whole Earth the Law giver, then they set up kings, and when the children of Israel served not the Lord God but went after other gods, after the Lord had brought them out of Egypt, who was their King, then they desired a king which the Lord gave them in his wrath, that asked him, Sam. 8. And Samuel said in this manner should a king reign over them, the king shall take your sons and appoint them his chariots and to be his horse-men, and some of them shall run before his chariots, is not this so, he will make of them Captains over thousands, and over fifties, and to ear the kings ground and to reap his harvest, and to make Instruments of War, and things for his chariots, he will take of your daughters and make of them Cooks, Apothecaries and Bakers, this is the fruit of your kings, and not Christ the King among the Christians, the king will take your fields, your vineyards, your best Olive-trees and give them to his servants, & this is the fruit of your kings, and not of Christ the King; The king will take your man-servants, & maid-servants, the chief of your young-men, your Asses & put them to work, & the tenth of your sheep, and you shall be his servants, and this is the fruits of the Kings of the Earth and not the fruit of Christ the King; And you shall cry out because of the King whom you have chosen, & the Lord will not hear you at that day, and hath not this been witnessed in England and christendom; Ignorant and foolish People that would have a king, and kings since the dayes of the Apostles, and have put out Christ and would not have him reign, and the People will not hear when all these fruits of these kings are laid down to them, they Christians as the Jews would not hear Samuel, nay but says Jews & Christians and false Elders, but there shall be a King over us, and we also will be like other Nations, & our King also shall judge us, and our King also shall go before us and fight our battles, and so they went out from the Lord of Hosts the King, the God of the whole Earth, so the Christians goes out from Christ, and set up Kings like Heathens, Hosea, 13.11. Therefore saith the Lord make them a king, he gave them a King in his anger and took him away in his wrath, therefore saith the Lord I will be thy King, where is there any other that can save them in all thy Cities & thy Judges of whom thou said give me a King and a Prince; Now you Ignorant and foolish, that is looking after Kings, which turns from the Lord and Christ his Son, Isa. 84. for the Kings of the Earth were gathered together and Nations raged, the Kingdoms were moved, Oh Lord of Hosts my King and my God, Thou art my King O God, sand help unto Jacob, harken O daughter and consider, incline thine ear, forget also thy People and thy Fathers house, so shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty, for he is thy Lord and reverence thou him; the Kings daughters are among the honourable women that are married, red the marriage, Psal. 45. The Lord will cut off the Spirit of Princes, Mark, and he is terrible to the Kings of the Earth, they band themselves and the Princes assemble themselves against Christ; surely the rage of men shall turn to thy praise, the tyranny of the rage shalt thou restrain, even the Lord is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the Earth, dividing the Sea by his Power who breaks the head of the Dragon in the Waters, and gave meat to his People in the Wilderness, who is the King of Glory, the Lord strong and mighty in battle, even the Lord strong and Mighty, lift up your heads you Gates, and come from the Kings of the Earth, and lift up yourselves you everlasting doors and let the King of Glory come in; you may say who is the King of Glory? the Lord of Hosts is this King of Glory; who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts is the King of Glory, and this is to you Christians that would have another king but the Lord of Hosts and Jesus Christ, Psal. 24. And you may see what work there was with the kings of Edom, of Esau, before the king reigned over the Children of Israel; And then when the Children of Israel grew into Esaus nature they would have a king, when they were turned from the Lord, so the Antichrists that turns against Christ, they will have a king but not Christ, as other Heathenish Nations would have, they will fight else, and this is Esaus nature that beareth the Sword; And hath it not been now as in Abimelech dayes, usurping for Kingdoms among the Antichrists, usurping Kingdoms for themselves, and not that Christ should reign whose right it is, the kingdoms are the Lords, judge. 9. Now David and Solomon there is figures in their being kings, and see what work the kings of the Medianites did; And the Children of Israels kings who said, thou art our king, reign over us, both thou and thy sons, and thy sons sons, & deliver thou us out of the hands of the Medianites; So mind now here when these like our doting Christians would have a king, Gideon  told them he would not reign over them, but saith he the Lord shall reign over you, so he shall be king, judge. 8. There you may see how Gideon kept down spirits that would be lifted up, & red what work the Children of Israel made when they were as Judges in the fear of the Lord, with the kings of the Earth, the kings of Canaan; and God said that they should be his People, in the twentieth of Exodus, but when the Children of Israel did wickedly, then the Lord sold them into the hand of the king of Canaan, then the wicked nature came over them, and when they were settled in ease & fullness & turned from the Lord, then they would have kings over them as other Nations had; And again you may see the Children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord God who was their King and served Balaam, so the Lords wrath was kindled against them, and the Lord sold them into the hands of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia, judge. 3.8. So now when the Christians have gone from Christ the King, then have they been sold under other kings, and then after a time have they set up kings among themselves, you may see what work the Children of Israel had with Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Sihon king of Heshbon, and strange kings of Bashan, Joshua, 13.  
And you may see in the twelfth of Joshua what work he made with the kings, who had trusted in God, whose King was the Lord, and how God had heardened the hearts of the kings and the People, that they might bee destroyed by them that had no king, the Children of Israel, and were no outward kings made of men, how they overthrew the kings when they kept faithful to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, Joshua 11. And how the Lord God fought for Israel, and what work Joshua made with the kings, how he brought them out of the Cave, a fit place for them, for all the kings that is made in mens earthly wills that will not have Christ to reign, the Rocks and Caves is their holes, and their shelter in time of distress, and not Christ, and you may see what a fear and dread was in all Nations and people, while the Children of Israel went on in the Name of the Lord, and so it will be again when a people goes on in the name of Christ, what a dread they will be in all Christendom, to all the Kings, and all such upon the Earth who are Kings and Princes, made but not by Christ, for all the True Redeemed ones are Kings and Priests, that reign upon the Earth, that knew their Election before the World began, Johs. 9.  
And the Children of Israel which the Lord lead forty years, who  told them, they should eat no Bread, nor drink Wine, nor strong drink, that they might know that he was the Lord their God; Then you may red how he slay strong Kings of Bashan, and Sihon King of Heshbon; Now these great criers up for Kings, how they eat, drink Wine and so be drunk, and run without either fear or wit, and many in Christendom I believe is well acquainted with this King-ship, and the makers of them, and the criers of them up, how they will be Drunk and gluttonous themselves, and such are more like to have a King over them like themselves, then Christ; and such are not like the True Jews, nor the True Christians in the dayes of the Apostles, they are like the Back-sliding Children of Israel, and back-sliding Christians that know not the Lord and Christ to be King over the whole Earth, and God hath set Christ to be a King upon his Holy Hill, who would have a King to come to him, under his Government, and all the earthly Kings made by the earthly minds and will of men sits upon the unholy hill, and not Sion. Well, all you that would have a King, not Christ that is set upon the Holy Hill, the Lord who is King of the whole Earth shall bring thee and thy King that thou hast set over thee unto a Nation that neither thou nor thy Fathers have known, and these serve other Gods, Wood and ston, as the Christians have done their Priests and Steeple-houses, houses which they call their Church, when the Church is in God, and all other Ceremonies which God never commanded; And the Lord shall smite thy knees and thighs with sore botches from the Crown of the head to the sole of the Foot, that thou cannot be healed, and thou shalt be a wonder and a Proverb, and the common talk among all people, Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shall neither drink of the Wine nor the Grapes, the worms shall eat them; Thou shalt have Olive Trees but shall not anoint thyself, for they shall fall, thou shalt beget Sons and Daughters, and they shall go Captive, so that thou shalt be mad for the sight thou shalt see, and here is the fruit, and much more in the same Chapter, of such as transgress the Law of God, and the command of God, and the Fruits of their Kings, Deut. 28. and the 2. of Deut. there you may see how the Lord spoken unto the Children of Israel, and they had no King, how they conquered and said, I have given into your hands Sihon King of the Amorites, and the King of Heshbon, and this day I will sand my fear and dread upon all people, and then you may see in the third chapter how the word of the Lord was fulfilled; How they went over the Kings and smote them in the Power of the Lord God; and then you may see again when the Children of Israel got a King which went from the Lord, how he by his wickedness lead many into captivity to be slain; And when the Children of Israel had slain Sihon King of the Amorites and Ogg King of Bashan, Moses began to declare this Law to them, saying to them as followeth, as you may red in the first of Deut. And as the Children of Israel dwelled in the fear of God, the Kings fled before them and departed, as King Herod the Cannanite, so will they do before all them that live in the Power of God, & comes to Christ the alone King who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, and to the spiritual Jews state, as the Heathen did before the outward Jews, while they lived in the power of God, and Jacobs King is higher then Agag, & the shout of a King was among the Children of Israel, while they felt the Lord of Hosts was among them, they trode down the Earthly Kings and inventions, and lived in the Law of God which Christ is the end of, and doth fulfil, the King of righteousness, Num. 24. And you may red the madness of the Kings of Edom against the Children of Israel; If your eyes be open you may see something in it, and then you may red in yourselves, with your King and your hard-heartedness, who will not let the Spiritual Jews pass through the dominions to their own Land; who follow their own King the Lamb, and all these novices christians that are crying up Earthly Kings, and following Kings, and fighting for the Kings of the Earth, are not such as follow the Lamb, Moses saith, I know that the King of egypt will not let the Children of Israel go but by a strong hand, for the Children of Israel had been oppressed by a new King in egypt who knew not Joseph, and the more they oppressed them the more they grew, the outward Jews whom the Lord was their King, and brought them out of egypt, so the Lord and Christ is the King that brings the Spiritual Jews out of egypt, and we know that these Kings are the Spiritual egyptians, got up since the dayes of the Apostles, it will be hard with you to let the Spiritual Jews go, for they hold fast, but of all their Jewels must they be robbed, and their first born slain before the Spiritual Jews come out, the outward Jews and outward Christians may make a God of their Jewels; so here hath risen new Kings since the dayes of the Apostles that hath not known Christ, whereby the Spiritual Jews hath been sore oppressed, but the more they do oppress them, the more they grow, they creep out; so the Spiritual King Pharaoh must be overthrown in the Sea of the World, and over them shall the Spiritual arise, and reign, and sing, who is come to Christ the King who sitteth upon the Holy Hill; And Abimelech the King took Sarah Abrahams wife, and there is the fruits of most earthly Kings houses, whom the Lord spoken to and warned, whom Abraham and Sarah came over; the Edomites revolted from under the Dominion of Judah, and made themselves a King, which was a profane people, which may be red in this age, and since the dayes of the Apostles, how people have revolted from Christ, of the tribe of Judah, and made themselves Kings, & the madness of Jeroboam when he was risen up to the Kingdom of his Father, strengthened himself, & slay all his brethren with the Sword like the Kings of the Christians, that hath risen up since Christ, stretching out their Swords and slaying their Brethren, instead of loving; so are both contrary to Christ and the Apostles, Christ the King, and the Apostles his servants: So red the Plagues in 2 Chron. 21. upon Jeroboam; and in the Revelations red the Plagues upon the Beast and the false Prophet; and Jehoshaphat who was a King in the time of the Law, Christ who endeth the Prophets and the Law is the King, who puts down all Principalities, and Powers, and Thrones, and subjects all things to himself; and the Kings are for the defence of outward Cities, and puts in a defence for outward Cities against Enemies; but Christ the King saith, Love them, that destroys that which causeth the Enmity among people, whereby there comes love and Peace from him who is the Covenant of Love and Peace; when Jeroboam reigned over Israel, and Abijah reigned over Judah, so here they had got two to Reign over them; and Jeroboam gathered together the vain men, the Children of Balaam; but Judah got the Victory in the time of the Figure; and so will Christ who is the Substance over all such Kings as Jeroboam, who gathers the vain men together; Jeroboam made Abijah Chief to be Ruler among his Brethren, for he thought to make him King, and he desired many Wives, which is the fruit of Earthly Kings and their Courts; King Solomon would not let the Daughter of Pharaoh live in the holy place, where the Ark of God was to come, but he built her a House; no more doth these Daughters of spiritual pharaoh come into the holy place, but they must be born again before they come into the Kingdom; and so all the Daughters of spiritual pharaoh hath their place, hath their house made, and all these earthly Kings brings the Daughters of spiritual pharaoh into that they call their holy place; the King of Tiron sends to Solomon because the Lord hath loved his People he hath made thee king over them, who hath given to David the king a wise Son, therefore Solomon asked of God Wisdom and knowledge, that he might Judge the People; for thou hast made me king over a People like the dust, who hath shewed mercy unto David my Father, and hath made me reign in his stead, but now Christ is come a greater then Solomon, who is to be heard, and every one that will not hear him is to be cut off from the People, Him that David called Lord; so these kings ends, their time must have an end, but Christ reigns for ever, who is the Beginning and the Ending. Nebuchadnezer king of Babylon came and besieged Jerusalem, and carried away all Jerusalem captive; and here is the work of the King of Babylon, so since the dayes of the Apostles, the Mystery of Babylon hath reigned and ruled, and Antichrist hath got up, so the Church hath been in the wilderness; the inward Jews hath been captivated, but now is Christ risen who is the king of the Jews, who slays Antichrist and the Beast and his power, and confounds Babylon, and that which hath been lead captive must go into captivity, and the Lord Jesus will reign though the kings of the Earth shall gather themselves against him, yea he shall slay with the Sword and kill with the Sword which are the Words of his Mouth, & so this Mystery of Babylon that which hath destroyed People from the good things, Josiah such as feared the Lord in the time of the Law and the Prophets, the Lord excepted, which kings was among the Jews, but you never red of any among the Christians,( but among the Apostates, since the dayes of the Apostles, but Jesus Christ the only king, which is the end of the Law, and the end of the Prophets, and will overthrow all the Apostates, who will reign himself, Solomon and David, and others which was anointed kings, was figures of Christ the Anointed, who is the King that ends the Ordinances, Statutes and Commandements, and the Law that the kings in the figure acted by, which king the Christians witnessed among the Apostles, and all Kings and Emperors, and Popes, which came up in the night, in the Dragons, Beasts, Mother of Harlots power which has killed the Martyrs, Prophets, Saints, and witnesses, which has persecuted the True Church, the Woman which fled into the wilderness, and the Man child that was caught up to God, but now is come to Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron.   

A Paper to all People, that they may see to whom the Scripture was Written, and the blindness of the Tithe-Teachers, and others that misapply them to the Christians so called.  
1. YOu shall swear in Truth and righteousness, you shall perform your vows to the Lord, this was spoken to the Jews, never to the Christians, as you may red.  
2. You ought to pay Tithe mint, Annis, and Cummin, Christ spoken that to the Jews, and not to the Christians.  
3. Cursed be the Deceiver, he that brought not in his Tithes into the Store-house; this was spoken to the Jews, and never to the Christians, for the Christians own Christ that ended the oaths, the Law, the Priest-hood and the Tithes.  
4. Ought not my House to be made a House of Prayer saith Christ, which you have made a Den of thieves, to the Jews, to the Pharisees, and not the Christians he spake thus. And Solomon built the Temple called the House of Prayer for the Jews, and Stephen and the Christians denied it, and Christ said, not one ston should be left upon another, And Paul denied it, and said, their bodies should be made the Temples of the Holy Ghost.  
5. And it is said the Priests lips should preserve the Peoples knowledge; this was spoken to the Jews, and never to the Christians, for Christ is the end of the Priest-hood and the Law, in whom are hide the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge, of whom the Christians do learn that be true Christians.  
6. Ezra the Scribe built a Pulpit, and set it up by the water gate in the Street, not in the Temple or Synagogues, and this was done among the Jews, not among the Christians who red the Law among them, for the Christians came to Christ the end of the Law, Nehe. 8. And whether your Pulpit be like Ezra's that was in the street near the water gate, that fourteen men stood upon it.  
7. And the cry is Solomon built a Temple, built the Temple yea for the Jews but not for the Christians, for their Bodies are the Temples of God. The Apostle went into the Temple and into the Synagogues, but not as that they had built them for that purpose, but went in among the jews to Preach Christ, and to bring them off of those things whose was the Synagogue and Temple, and to Preach Christ, and bring them to him who was before Temple or Synagogues either.  
G. F.   

To all the Professors and Teachers of Christs words, and the Apostles and Saints.  
OH how have you dishonoured the Truth, Oh how have you dishonoured the Name of God, Oh how have you made the Gospel chargeable? Oh how have you lost your Glory, your Glory is made voided? Oh how have ye despised the cross of Christ, and gloried in your shane, and served not the Lord Jesus Christ, but your own bellies? Oh how long have you made a trade of the Prophets, Apostles and Saints words, which many suffer that be in the life by you, and stocked, whipped, banished, imprisoned? Oh how have you made a trade of these words, and whipped, and persecuted, and prisoned, scoffed and mocked, and reproached the elect of God, the Saints, such as be in the Spirit of God that gave forth Scriptures? Oh ye professors, professing Magistrates, and Teachers, where is Truth now to be found, in your goals, in your houses of correction, in your stocks? theres the place now for People to look for Truth, for the Ministers of unrighteousness that serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies, that teach for filthy lucre, and the professing Magistrates that they ride upon, will let Truth have no place among them, accept it be in their goals, houses of correction, stocks, or prisons? Oh shameless men! What havoc have you made of the Saints goods, what spoiling of them? but now Iobs patience comes to be known; what wolves do you appear in sheeps clothing, ravening, Worrying, Tearing in whole Families, such as ye do no work for, a right wolf, Let the goals, the Prisous in your Counties make them manifest, yet do you pretend to teach people, to keep Lectures up and down to blind People, to blind the Country, think you not that they see you; that if the country people did not put into your mouths, and the Magistrates give you maintenance and dinners at your Lectures, that you would be a company of dumb shepherds, a company like them that Isaiah spake of, will you bark without they give you augmentations, your Easter-reckonings, Tithe-piggs and goose, and Hay, &c. And Gleab-lands? nay will you sing without money, Pray without money? You make trades of the Saints words, Prophets words, by the hour-glass, that is your measure, and when the glass is run, time is spent neighbours, is it not the light make all these things manifest, and the day come that you cannot be hide, & that all your preaching and all your fair words, and fair speeches, your actions make you to stink in the country, plundering people you do no work for, as bad as ever the Caviliers or rather worse, for they did but take their goods away, & you pretend for a worship, and cast into prison besides; you be them that serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but your own bellies, for if you served Christ, he would teach you no such Doctrine, no such Practices; Therefore O ye wells without water, Clouds without rain, ye wandering Stars, for whom is reserved the blakness of darkness; the spoiling of the Saints goods, the casting men into prison can not separate them from the Lord Jesus Christ, nor the powers, nor the principalities, nor all the Ministers of unrighteousness that robs for their bellies, and plunders and steals and takes of them that hears them not? Oh wo and misery is your condition and lamentable is your state! Ye shall come to wish it had been better ye had never been born, and ye had better a lived without this making a spoil of the people of Gods goods, for it will sink you all; was not the Pope the first author of Goals and prisons, he your example, was not he the first author of tithes, Easter-reckenings, and Midsummer-dues, he the first author of making a trade of the Scriptures, and killing the Saints, and making a trade of their words; But the Lord God is come, who will be avenged of you; O ye shepherds! howling must come among you, and principal of the flock, you have made a prey on the people, ye divine to them for money, ye have taught them for filthy lucre, ye have born rule among them for means, ye preach to them while they put into your mouths, ye preach to them for the fleece, in the cloudy dark day, night of apostasy since the Apostles dayes; your tents are wicked, your habitation is darkness, the fruits appears, the goals may witness, your vineyards are wildernesses, lie like a wilderness, a howling wilderness, your trees are corrupt, your bottles are full of the old Wine, which burst with the new; your candle is put out, therefore you cannot believe in the light that enlightens every man that cometh into the World, your darkness cannot comprehend it, the day of many of your visitations will be over, the Sun over you set, and you shall be confounded, and your wisdom shall be turned backward, and you cannot deceive people much longer; your folly is made manifest, you make it manifest to all men; and your cruelty, your unmercifulness, your hard heartedness, your spoiling the Saints goods, who quiter live without the fear of God, as if you had never heard talk of God, the Church, Prophets, Apostles or Christ Jesus the Son of God, for they are not your examples, but such as be out of Truth: Therefore such as Teach for filthy lucre, for the fleece, for the means, for the gain from their quarter, that divine for money, such never served the People of God, but the People of God cried against, that lived in his fear; But they served covetous, and they served persecutors and earthly minded ones, that lives in transgression out of the power of God? Therefore you that feel after the Lord God, come out from among them, least you be partakers of their plagues, for now their feigned humility, selfe-righteousnesse, will-worship will not serve their own turns, their will preaching, their will professing Saints words, which came not by the will of man, which they preach for their earthly ends, which was not the practise of them that was in the will of God; but freely they had received freely they gave, such served the Lord Jesus Christ, but such as served not the Lord Jesus Christ preached for filthy lucre the Saints words, that was covetous, but such as served Christ received freely, spake freely, taught freely. Therefore all you blind guides, ye blind leaders, ye blind watchmen, whose deeds are not wrought in God, who hate the light and will not come to it because your deeds be evil, and love the darkness rather then the light, whose works of darkness break open, and cannot be hide, who would keep all people from the light, and hate it as yourselves do, and so to keep them blind that they should not see, like the Pharisees, shut up the Kingdom of Heaven from men, would not go in themselves nor suffer others, and so would keep people from the light which Christ have enlightened them withall, that they should not see your deeds; but that is your condemnation that hate it, and love the darkness rather, and will not come to it because it will reprove them; In that the Saints walk over your heads, which condemn you in that they have unity in the light which brings to the day, by which all the Saints be made manifest and seen, Praises & Glory to the Lord God for ever, in which the Saints have Unity and can sing Halilujah, the Lord Omnipotent reigns; away with all your formal preaching, singing, formal sprinkling, and Sacraments, away with your wilderness, professors and Teachers, who have long served God and Christ with your lips, but your hearts far from him; away with the traditions of men and rudements of the World, and commandments and Doctrines of men; away with your worldly Church, old Mass houses, the Church is in God,( Thes. 1.) Away with your singing, and preaching, and praying for money by the hour-glass; Away with your feigned humility, will-worship, hypocritical speaking and teaching; The Lord Gods indignation is kindled against you, all professors and Teachers of the Saints, Prophets, Apostles and Sons words, out of the life found, that will prison to death for your bellies; Is this the end of your Religion? Is this the end of your profession, Church and ministry? Do it all end for that which is for the mouth and your bellies? And will not let Truth live amongst you, but in your Goals, would you root the name of the Saints out of the Earth, and not let an example live among you that follow the Apostles & Christ Jesus Doctrine? But Truth is risen which comprehends the World, and was before it was, which all the Devils instruments and he cannot get down, but destroys him and his works.  
G. F.   

That the Powers of the Earth may see how the People of God suffer, and are persecuted and Imprisoned to Death, and Goods spoyled; and all this done in the name of the Higher Power.  
ALL you Powers of the Earth, is not this enough to convince you, the hardest hearted of you all, to see the sufferings of the People of God under your Authority, and your Priests that does no work for them, their patient suffering till death imprisonment, because they will not pay the Priests tithes, and because they will not swear, and will not transgress the Lord Jesus Christs commands, their goods spoyled, they come against with Clubs, with Swords, the Priests bailiffs driving away their cattle and goods, taking away so much as their Plow-geare, whereby many Families are almost ruined, and this they patiently suffer; and so the Priests say the Higher power granted them triple damage; and the Higher power cast them into prison because they will not swear to their answers: Mark and consider, you are them that bear all, the Saints sufferings will fall upon you; For the Priests cry you give them power to take triple damage, and then they take triple and triple, so then they cry it is the Law that give them triple and triple from them they do no work for, nor never heard them; Is not this unreasonable, would you that be in the Authority be served so yourselves? How many hundreds and thousands have been prisoned, and fined in this Nation, and their goods spoyled, and many imprisoned to death, and never lift up a hand against any, and never found in plots nor contrivances against this power that prisoned them, but under it suffer patiently; Now if this be not enough to convince you, what will? And your hearts are hardened, words will not, but now it must be the sufferings of the Just; did ever lambs, or Sheep make such havoc of beasts as the Priests and Powers, the bad Magistrates have made of the people of God in this age? did ever any of the people of God lift up a hand against any man, Or any of them that you in scorn call Quakers, that you will scarce let have any room on the Earth? But in stocks, Prisons, Cages or goals, or Houses of correction, and yet spoil their goods, and make havoc of them? Have ye Taxes? have ye Excise? Have ye means for your poor? Priests take five or six times value of what he claims, and his Church-warden, and his clerk that say Amen, they will cast into prison; And the Priest will cast into prison such as he do no work for; Church-wardens make havoc of the goods, and spoil to maintain the old Masse-houses, and yet their Teachers must not be spoken to neither going or coming, nor at the Steeple-house, but five pound or six moneths imprisonment; And must not have a question asked him but at this dear rate; Is not this heavier & worse then Queen Mary? For they might speak when the Priest had done; Is not your finger heavier then the Papists? And why is it that you suffer the Saints goods to be spoyled, their houses to be torn to pieces, their windows to be broken where they meet together; And why is it you suffer their goods to be straind, for going to meetings the first day of the week, not giving them again? And why is it you suffer your rude people to knock down friends in highways, and Gates, ston them at their meetings, and rend and tear their clothes off their backs, and yet they patiently suffer it? And pay Taxes to maintain Authority; their meetings broken up, heads broken, clothes rent off their backs, squibs of fire thrown at them at their meetings; Mans dung thrown among them, at the faces of them rotten eggs; Windows all tattered to pieces by Priests people, and many fined because they will not go to the Steeple-house, and many fined for going to the Steeple-house; And is not unmercifulness the cloak of People, the Covering and folly and madness and blind zeal; Is this like unto the sheeps doings, these actions before mentioned, and Lambs like unto the flock of Christ, as you name yourselves to be? Why do you force people to swear, when Christ saith swore not at all? Why will you be Antichrist against Christ, and persecute them that will do truth at yea and nay, according to Christs Teaching? Why will you persecute People, and prison them for not paying to the clerks for their saying Amen, and turning the hour-glass, and hanging the Pulpit, & such like service? And why do you persecute people for not mending the old mass-houses, who for conscience sake cannot mend the the old Mass-houses, and set up Pictures and Images, as ye may see in London, in that called St. Sweetings, and most places? Why do you persecute People for not paying tithes to the jesuits tribe of black coats, when Christ said, freely ye have received freely give? Why will you set up a maintenance opposite to Christ, to oppress people, and tolerate the takers of it under the name of Christs Ministers? Why will you persecute people for crying repentance through your streets, and warning people to forsake sin and unrighteousness, and ungodliness, and deceitful merchandise? Why will you whip and stock such? And why do you persecute such as Rogues and sturdy beggars, and whip them that fear God, that are moved to go to visit their friends, or about their occasions traveling, though they be men worth forty or fifty or eighty pound a year? Is not this a bad savour & a stink? Why will you persecute people for conscience sake that obey the Law of God, and cannot respect mens persons? Why have you a custom to compel peogle to respect persons and commit sin, contrary to the Law of God, and is it not an evil custom? Or else forty pound fine if they will not respect persons, or forty Mark or more or less, and is not this a shane to persecute people to death, because they will not maintain your Ministry, as if you were not able to maintain your Ministry yourselves? Is not this to your shane & dishonour of Nobility? And is it not a shane & dishonour likewise to Nobility to persecute, spoil goods, such as will not maintain your Clerks and mend your house which you meet in, and do not this show a bad spirit and not the honourable? Why do you let the Popes cross stand on all your Ships, your Seals and mazes, your weights and measures, your Flags Arms and Scutchons? Therefore let all those that take the name upon them of a Minister of Christ, let them not be such as will plunder and spoil and make havoc of peoples goods they do no work for; but first let them plant before they eat, get a flock and then milk, thrash and plow, and not such as covets mens silver and gold and apparel, and teach for filthy lucre, and are the strikers, wrestlers with flesh and blood; Is not all this prisoning and whipping about Religion, Church & ministry, and worship got up among you since the dayes of the Apostles? Is it not time now to awake out of this murderous power, into the power of Christ Jesus, and to come to the Lord of Life, and Christ the Wisdom of God which is pure and gentle Lamb-like, that save mens lives, not that which destroys them; And why do you persecute about dayes, and prison and strain goods, and the Apostle said do not judge one another about such things, the Kingdom of Heaven do not stand in meats nor drinks, nor days, but in righteousness and joy in the Holy Ghost, and in power; who is come to Christ is come to the Lord of the sabbath; And why do you hate and prison to death and spoil goods for the Priests, that do no work for them he spoil? Christ, do not he say love Enemies, why do you hate and persecute to death? Did Christ say one Christian should do so to another? And is this the power of Christ, the mind of Christ, that you should prison to death for Priests maintenance, and for not swearing Fine, And that you should prison and strain the goods of people that travail to meetings the first day, is it such as break the Sabbath? Is this Christ mind? Answer and consider, is this Christs mind that you should imprison and spoil the goods of such that will not pay Clerks wages for turning the hour-glass, and such like, and laying the Priest a cushon, and for not mending the old Mass-house, which they call a Temple; Is this Christs mind that these things should be held up? And is it Christs mind now that people should be fined and imprisoned for crying repentance up and down, to warn people to turn from sin and evil, is it Christs mind that people should be fined and imprisoned because they will not swear, and fined and imprisoned because they will not doff their hats, and respect persons, and transgress the law of God, who have given you this liberty in all these things? Whose mind have this been? Are these the nature of sheep to come with hills and Swords, and staves and clubs, & strain the peoples goods for a man that do no work for them? Was not this Iudas way that thief that carried the bag? and is not this the Priests way? Is this the work of the Ministers of Christ that covet no mans Gold nor silver nor appartel, that did not teach for filthy Lucre, will you say that these do not teach for filthy Lucre, that strains the goods of them they do no work for, and prison to death; yet must not these be called Lucre Teachers? And why do you scorn and mock at them that tremble at the word of God, and make a mock of them? Surely yourselves is not come to the trembling of Devils, to have him cast out of you, which you must before you come to know the earth shaken which he compasseth; And why did you put out such as fear God and tremble at the word of God out of the Army, which might have been a blessing to the Lord God in their generation, and for preserving peace and quietness among you? Why did you put out all such Justices as fear the Lord God, that was for the stoping of the vulgar people the Priests rude multitude, who knock down in High-ways, that murder in the Steeple-houses, that tear, rend clothes in pieces, break windows, tear the hair off of mens heads, scoff, mock, ston through streets? Is it not just with the Lord God to vex you, to bring troubles among yourselves? Why are you not come to equity? They that will have a hireling let them pay them, and not for other to be compelled to maintain them, as are taught of God; Did not the Prophets in all ages, and the Apostles testify against them that taught for filthy Lucre, and the love of money, coveted mens silver, Gold and apparel, and were strikers, lovers of pleasures, and are these the only men must fit you now, and please you? Did not the Prophets cry against such as did bear rule by their means, and say it was a horrible filthy thing committed in the Land, and such as taught for the fleece, and seek for it, and make a prey upon the people, and such as taught for their gain from their quarter, as were called greedy dumb dogs that could never have enough( Isaiah 56,) And are these the only men must fit you now, and your people, that will spoil the goods so of the people of God( the Saints) that they do no work for, and the Children of God that be taught of God, and follow Christ Jesus; And shall they be your only Teachers that Divine to you for Money, that preach to you for hire, that will preach peace to you while you put into their mouths, if not prepare war against, and be them that have been the bringers of the Nation into Ruin, and yet is your eyes closed up, you cannot see; Do not Micha tell the heads of Jerusalem and of Israel, that their Judges did Judge for rewards, their Prophets Divine for money, their Priests did teach for hire, was not this the message of Micha to the Heads, and did not the Heads allow of these things, their Authority, & was it not contrary to the Power of God, & did not Micha say that they should be all brought on Heaps, and their High places of worship like a foreste; And shall these be such now that must please you that Christ cried wo against, such as stand praying in the Synagogues, love salutations in the Markets in their long Robes, in uppermost Rooms at Feasts, which Christ cried wo against? Are these now they that must fit the People? Usurpers of Authority, of a Ministry made of men without that of God; For where do you red of Master Paul or Master James, &c. Or who are the men that must fit the Nation now, but such as the Prophets, Apostles and Christ witness against, and the Spirit of the Lord could never bear, which corrupt the Earth, who is gone on in Cains way; Did Cain kill Abel his brother about sacrificing, about his worship and Religion, and what have the Apostate Christians since the Apostles dayes killed his brother Christian about Sacrifice and Religion, have not this been the false Church, the great City, the Sacrificer? thatis Cain that built a City that killed his Brother Abel, and what have you killed your Brother Christian, Cain killed his Brother; False Church since the true Church went into the wilderness, is not Cain a vagabond, and did not the Apostle tell you that you should not go on in Cains way, but you should love one another, love is lost, should you not love Enemies, and now poor Cain canst thou bear thy punishment, is not thy punishment greater then thou canst bear? have thou killed thy Brother about Religion, worship, Sacrifice, and because he would not put into thy mouth, give thee maintenance, give thee means; nay because he would not swore, and break Christs command, prison to Death; Is this true Christianity? And the fruits of sheep, of Lambs, and the work in the Wisdom of God, these things fall heavy upon you; And do not the Steeple-houses in this Nation, and the highways, and the Courts, and goals and houses of Correction, & Towns which are sparkled with the blood of the Innocent satisfy you and convince you, besides what many have suffered to death, this lingering Martyredome, who would wear out the Saints of the most High, and weary them out by sufferings, but the Lord is upholding them by his hand, who can overturn Nations at his pleasure; Before this blood that is spilled in christendom about Religion, Church Worship and Ministry, and his maintenance, and oppressing People for not respecting persons, and breaking the Commands of Christ be taken off of these Nations, and the blood be revenged, and Inquisition made for it, search made for it, the Author of all things, of spilling of it, sad weight you will feel, and wo and misery will come upon you before the Nation be cleansed of this; Therefore I say, the Innocency, the Patience of the sufferings of the People of God, that suffer daily, examples and patterns among you all, following the Prophets and Christs and the Saints in suffering, may convince you, not threatening to revenge, nor lifting up their hand against you, but committing their cause to the Lord, who do avenge the cause of his People, and will be avenged and overturn until righteousness be Established; And while you turn against the Just, and persecute the People of God, you go against the Power of God, in which you should be Established, and so you cannot prosper, until you stop oppression and persecution, and the violence of the unrighteous Ministry, that they shall not spoil and devour the People of Gods goods; And stop the violence of Judges that they shall not fine and imprison, and make havoc of the people that will not respect their persons; And that they shall not be persecuted, and prisoned, and fined, because they will not swore, and break the command of Christ; And stop the violence of the rude multitude, that they shall not break the windows, knock down, and beat, bruise, ston the people of God; And that the Justices shall not encourage the Priests rude people to abuse, to tear clothes, to break the heads of the people of God as they walk up and down; And you stop the violence of the bad Magistrates, Mayors, and Balliffs, for whipping honest men of sufficient estates for sturdy Rogues and beggars, for warning them to fear God, and bidding the Town Repent of wickedness, oaths, drunkenness, and filthiness; When you stop these things, then there may be something of your prospering; When you stop the corruptions of Magistrates, Mayors and bailiffs, that stop such as go to meet together the first day of the week; but so long as you suffer such things to be acted, you go in the way to have the Nation ruined; And when you begin to stop the Church-wardens and the Clerks that come to make havoc and will cast in prison such as will not give them money, and spoil their goods though they do nought to them, while you suffer these unrighteous things to be acted in the Nation, it is but like the righteous Power you should deny, and so you not be established.  
Oh when will the Goals & houses of Correction be emptied of the Lambs and Babes and Children of God? Oh when will they have a place out of your Goals and houses of Correction and Stocks? Oh when will you let them have a place among you, the Lambs and sheep out of the Wolves Dens? When will you set your Goals open, and free them of the People of God? It is not to be looked for until you come into the mind of Christ, nor expected; and when will you come into that as you long in words have talked on? Oh where is Truth to be looked for now among the bad Magistrates, and the Teachers of unrighteousness for filthy lucre, but in their Goals, their Cages, their houses of correction, and in their Stocks? Oh how is this Nation torn and tattered being out of the life and power of God, which should govern, and the Wisdom of God which is pure and gentle from above? How do the earthly, sensual and devilish appear in the highest place of Worship, and chiefest houses of prayer? How do men appear more like Wolves? How do the people appear in sheeps clothing but in Wolves nature, both professors and Teachers? Is not this sad to behold, and lamentable to look upon? How ill-favoured do Religion and profession become the people that are persecuted? How unseemly are the sheeps clothing upon the ●●cks of the Persecutors, and people with their Clubs, and Staves, and Bills, and Stones in their hands, and Dirt and Mire, and the Priest with his Goals and Stocks, are these the weapons of Spiritual men? oh for shane, how dare they adventure to take the Name of a Minister of Christ, and have no better weapons, no better armor then such Weapons as these? Are not all these got up since the Apostles dayes? Examine your Old Records and History Books, and red the Epistles of the Apostles, where they gave such commands, or whether there were such weapons, Stocks, whips and Prisons, and that those should be them that should bend people to worship; Do these make worshippers of God in the Spirit and Truth, Goals, Stocks, whips, Prisons, these make wil-worshippers, that are made by Will-worshippers? but it is not the work of them that worship in the Spirit? for the weapons of the Apostles were Spiritual not carnal, they wrestled not with flesh and blood, but with the powers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places, these were the workmen that were not ashamed, that had the spiritual weapons, and these were in the mind of Christ the Prince of life, that destroyed death and the devil the power of it, and come to save mens lives, whose Doctrine was Love enemies, but you have disobeyed it that persecutes your brethren the Christians to death, and so one Christian persecute another, and you are not in the higher Power of Christ that destroys the Devil, but you are in that Power that hates, and you destroy the Creatures, these are the blind guides and blind Leaders and watchmen, that run at the Creatures, and should run at the power of darkness, and these be out of the love of God to enemies, and these will wrestle with flesh and blood, be in the power of darkness the Devils work, and so defaces the Creature, and do not bring it into the Liberty of the Sons of God, these should be ashamed of their work before the Lord, and are such as the Lord never sent, for whom he sends he Arms, makes them walls of brass that they shall not fear the whole world, they abhor the name of a prison, or Goal, or a stock, or a whip, or cage, or an inquisition to search people, or to bring them to worship God, for these have been since men inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God which should search them; your day is come of trial, the day is come of Christendoms trial, by which day her works and actions are seen, and have been seen since the Apostles dayes and time.  
And are not you all blind, and do not you hood-winck yourselves, else might you not see what confusion there is amongst your Teachers? have they not teacht you should work out your Salvation with fear and trembling, and if any come to that work, to tremble at the Word of God, then he is scofft and mocked, a nick-name is given him by the Priests and his followers, ( A Quaker.) And have not your Priests said you should repent, and if any come to repent and to turn away from sin, is not he made a prey upon by you? And have not the Priests taught that people should be taught of God, have the Law of God written in their mindes and hearts, if any come to witness this, he is as a beacon set on an hill, he is mocked and scofft at, one that denies means? And have not your Priests and you prayed that the Lord would led them by his Spirit, and give his spirit, and if any one come to witness this, that he is lead by the Spirit of God, that pray in the Spirit, and sing in the Spirit, and the spirit of the Father speaking in him, he is called a Blasphemer and one that is not fit to dwell upon the earth? And have not your Priests and you declared that Christ should be in people except they be Reprobates, and if any one come to witness Christ in him the hope of glory, the body dead because of sin, and he manifest in the flesh to destroy sin in his flesh, and he through him became Gods righteousness, these are the men and these are the people that are not fit to live upon the Earth, and yet you will have Taxes of them, assessments, excise, mend Steeple-houses, pay Clerks, pay Priests triple and triple, and their goods taken away, and Horses and cattle for going to Meetings, and they fined and Imprisoned for asking the Priest a question, and they Prisoned and their Goods spoiled for not paying the Church-Wardens for mending the Steeple-house, and yet must not have the service of it, to ask the Priest a Question in it, and yet he must have triple and triple, give him triple, and he will take triple and triple; Are these like Gospel times? Besides all the Mocks and Reproaches, and the breaking the Meetings; Is this like Liberty of Conscience? Are these the works of Lambs and sheep? red yourselves, and see which nature you are in.  
G. F.   

Concerning the trying the ministry, and bringing the Law into a short volume that all might know it.  
LEt all your Laws, Friends, be drawn up into a short column, that all country men may know it, and the end of it; And let not the Law be like a bottomless Pit, that neither Lawyers, nor Judges, nor any people knows the end of it hardly; Therefore thousands of people are almost undone, let all be drawn up in a little short volume, and all the rest burnt and remitted and of no use; And let not any one execute the Law for money, least ye make merchandise of the people, and buy and sell causes for a thing of nought, and make a prey of people, Whereby the Just is hindered from his right often. Take away your Augmentations, tithes, Gleab-lands, Easter-reckonings, Midsummer-dues and Mortuaries, gifts, rewards, wages from your Pastors and Teachers, and then you will see whether your Religion, Worship, Church and Ministry do not end in that which is for the Mouth and Belly, and let no man have the name of a Minister of Christ, that is made at schools and colleges and by Tongues the natural, but let them have the name of a States clerk to red Acts and Proclamations, and they are hardly worthy of that, for they have said long enough that they are Ministers of Christ, and yet they say they never heard his voice.  
G. F.   

To the Judges, and Lawyers, and Ministers, concerning discoursing with them of tithes, and our Hats, and Thee and Thou, and the Light, and perfection which we are persecuted about.  
FRIENDS,  
OUr Friends, have suffered long imprisonment, some for not swearing to their answers, some for not answering by an Attorney, some for not paying tithes, some for not putting off the Hat, and paying Clerkes wages, and for not upholding the old Mass-houses; So now the Lawyers, and Judges, that we may have a public meeting with them, or discourse of these things, whether they be according to Law or Justice, or they have done according to Law or Justice, or whether there be any law now standing in the Nation for tithes, or any Bishops, or Ecclesiastical Judges; or whether there be any Law now in the Nation that will Imprison a man if he do not appear by an Attorney, or if their be any law in the Nation that will prison a man if he will not swore to his answer, and whether or no all them that swore are not them that do not the things that Christ commanded, that is to say, swore not at all, yet they are such as call him Lord; So now if that you or any other will engage that we may have a meetting with the chief Judges or Lawyers in the Nation, we would be willing to discourse with them of these things according to their own Law: That Truth may come to appear, and that these things may come to be disputed before you who are a Committee, or some members of the Parliament; And saying the word Thee, or Thou, and not wearing ribbons, and not paying tithes, and for not paying Clerks wages, and not mending Steeple-houses, and not swearing to their answers, and not seeing their Attorneys, and not putting off the Hat, are the greatest things we are hated for in the Nation; So that we may have a discourse with the Ministers and Lawyers together, or each of them; And for owning the Light Christ that doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, and owning perfection, and overcoming sin, and saying we are in him, and He in us, that doth destroy the Devil and all his works; and these be the great things we are hated for, which things we desire to discourse of with any man, Lawyers, Priests, or Judges.  
G. F.   

Concerning serving the Nations freely, which is the way to answer the oppressed Seed of God in People.  
FRIENDS,  
YOu are to do the Nations business freely, and that is the way to get into the hearts of People, to answer the good and just Principle of God in them, and take away tithes and oppression, and take away great assessments, abate your Wages, stop persecution for Religion, Whipping, Stocking, Imprisoning and killing, That the Blood of the Innocent ye may keep off of you, which few have done before you, for which the secret Power of the Lord hath wrought and overturned them. Friends, this I say to you, Paul was never persecuted until he came to exercise himself to have a good conscience towards God and towards man, then was he stoned, was he prisoned, then was he tossed up and down before Magistrates, and haled up and down from place to place; So when he came to the confession that he exercised himself to have a good conscience towards God and towards man, then the Magistrates was against him, the Powers, the Priests, the people of the Earth, and so they do against us, when we come to exercise ourselves, to have our Consciences voided of offence, &c. to keep it clear, then the Magistrates began to persecute against us, people to ston us, Priests to rage against us in their Pulpits, and cry to the Magistrates, help, help, help, These are the men that turn the World upside down, these are the men that deny Government, as they said to Christ, this is the man that is against caesar, and a breaker of the Law; And called Paul a pestilent fellow, a ring-leader of Sects, and charged him with heresy for the answer of a good Conscience, but Paul answered in Wisdom and soberness, saying, by that way which you call heresy do we Worship the God of our Fathers, and so do we, and if the Magistrates had nothing to do with Paul, who exercised a pure Conscience, what hath the Magistrate to do now with them that do exercise their Conscience, if the Magistrates do still persecute them that exercise their Consciences towards God and towards man, they must judge Paul to be the heretic. Therefore this I say to you, as long as you keep the Priests up with their tithes, with their maintenance, and feed them, ye will have trouble in the Nation, for they will be setting the people one against another; So take away their maintenance, & let them that will preach freely, preach, and then you will try who is for God, and who is for Baal, for the wages of unrighteousness, and who is for the belly; so let them plow, and dig, and make vineyards; And let no man be persecuted for the exercise of his conscience; And keep ye low and in the power of God, and in the fear, and in his Life, or else you will be busy with those things which doth not belong to you, and you will not have an understanding to order, and govern those things which belongs to your place, and thereby come ye by that to be blind; And such by the power of the Lord God the Lord throws out; Therefore that which would blind your eyes, keep down, keep out, keep silent, keep sober; lay not hands upon any hastily, neither give Judgement suddenly least ye  shed the Innocent blood, and that is the way to stand and prosper, for this is your time and day.  
G. F.   

That all people may see who are Jesuite-minded and Popishly-affected.  
TO all that say they are not Popishly-affected, nor Papistly-minded, then why do you mind the old Mass-house so much, with so many Popish crosses upon it? Then why do you follow the Popish priests, that are made at the Popish schools? At Trinity college, and Jesus college, and Christ college, which goes in black Coats, imitating the Popish jesuits and not the Apostles, and why do you follow these priests that says their prayers by the glass, as the Papists do their mass; and if you were not Popishly minded, nor Papistly affencted why do you let your Priests take the Pops alms, which is tithes, and Easter-reckonings, and Midsummer-dues? Where did Christ to the Apostles set forth such a maintenance for his? And if you were not Popishly-minded and Papistly affencted, why do you set up all these pictures in your houses, and on your signs, and upon Cloath, and daubing upon a board the shape of men and women, more liker mad people and fancical Papists, not the Apostles? for where had they such things, and if you were not Popishly affencted, and Papistly minded; why do you set the Papists cross upon all your weights, and measures, and Silver and Gold, Ships, maces, Flages, seals, and Cars, Coaches, Conduits, Gates, Scutchins, and upon the seal of England, Scotland and Ireland stands the stinking Popes cross; Oh the stink of Popery thatis amongst us! And what can you do without it, can you make Seals without it, weights and Coins? now are not you Popishly minded that follow all this? For where did the Apostle give you any such examples, doth he not tell you that the cross of Christ is the power of God, and if you were not Popishly affencted and Papistly-minded, why hath not the priests renounced their black coats, the jesuits tribe, and why have not you and your Ministers forsaken their making Ministers at colleges, as they do in Spain and France and Italy? and was not the Papist the first that set up these colleges in England, and gave them the names by which you now call them? as Trinity college, Christ college, &c. And if you were not Popishly minded, you would at lest have changed their names, and you would a been ashamed to a made the Papists old Masse-house, your Church as you call it, which they formerly consecrated and hallowed and name, in which ye continue to this day, as Peters, Pauls, Margrets, St. Dunstons, Marys and Grigories, Austins, all-hallows, Michael, &c. If you had not been Popishly minded, and Papistly affencted, you would have changed these names, and if you were not Popishly minded and Papistly affencted, ye would have denied all the dayes and their names, which the Pope hath from time to time invented and imposed, wherein the Creatures of God are and have been spent upon mens ungodly lusts; as Christmas, Lammas, michaelmas and Martlemas, Candlemas, and Childermas, Alhalamas, what doth all this Popery stuff about your ears, and in your mindes, if you are not Popishly affencted, and Papistly minded, what do you with all these names of the Popes; to your times and seasons, and also for your dayes, as Sunday, the first Sunday in Advent, the 2, 3, and 4, Sunday in Advent. What smells this off, if not Popery, what is Epiphany Sunday, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Sunday after Epipbany, and what is Sexagisima and quinquagisima Sunday, and what Trinity Sunday, and Whitsunday, 1, 2, 3, 4, Sunday after Trinity, and all the like rubbish and stuff, is it not Popery; and what is the annunciation and Purification of Mary, and how is it that you still keep up the names and times and dayes, holy dayes which the Pope hath formerly given to this Nation, and continue the observation of them and the Memorial of so many of them even in the public affairs & transactions at courts & terms, yearly calendars, and almanacs, whereby the people are kept in superstition and Ignorance to this day, doth not this serve the Popes interest, and make people ready to receive all the rest of his institutions, when the least opportunity presents, for what means all these names, as St. Thomas, John, Matthew, Mary, Mark, Lukes dayes, day of Invocation of Mary, St. John the Baptist, St. Stephen, Michael, Bartholomew, Simon and judas, and what means the names of each week day, as Sunday, monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: But Popery, and Heathens who invented these names, and if you were not Popishly and Heathenishly minded and affencted, you would blot out all these things of theirs and have gone according to Scripture, which these are contrary to, may not the Papists laugh and mock at your denying them in word, and still keep in their Doctrines and Teachings, and Inventions? and if you be not Popishly affencted or in love with the Popes ways, why do you continue in these names and Titles of places and degrees to your younger and elder scholars in the schools of Oxford and Cambridge? and what means all the Images of brass and ston in several places? if you be not minded to continue Popery, why do you continue their old Monuments of Idolatry?  
If you be not Popishly minded, how comes these things amongst you which we bear testimony against?  
G. F.   

This sheweth if people can stop the springs in the Sea, or the Sun and Moon from rising, or make Summer Winter, then they may say, we can hinder the work that God will bring to pass.  
WEll, come Christendom, and you that are called Teachers and professors in it, and Rulers and Magistrates, will not your Church your Ministry, your Worship, your maintenance, your Laws, and the makers of them, by which these things have been upheld, by which peoples states have been ruinated, and their lives taken away, will not this fall down together, will not all this come to an end, will not all this cease and rot off the out-side of the Land of the living, and the City of the living God, and the Church, and true Ministry, that receives freely, and give freely, and Eats what is set before them, and the true Worshippers; will not all this be a shane to true magistracy, when it ariseth throughout christendom, who are the help Government for Christ, that saves mens lives, that doth not destroy mens lives about Worship, Church, Ministry or Maintenance; as thou Christendom hath done since the dayes of the Apostles.  
But come Priest, Magistrates, and christendom, can you limit the Holy One? Can you stop the hand of God for overturning? Can you hinder the wind from blowing? Can you stop the rage of the Sea? Can you turn the Sea backward? Can you break the Covenant with the day, and with the night, that there shall be neither day nor night in its season? Can you hinder the Summer and the Winter? Can you hinder the due from falling upon the tender herbs, and grass, and buds, and plants, and gardens? Can you stop the great showers of rain, that it rain not? Can you stop the Thunder and the way thereof, whereby the Mystery of God shall be revealed?  
Dare you venture upon the lion in the foreste, in the wilderness, & in the Woods? Can you hinder the frost from freezing in the Winter? Is there any Frost in the Summer? Can you make the Summer frozen? Can you make the tender buds and plants frozen in the Summer, and the pools and the springs? Can you frieze them up? Can you make the dust of the Summer as Winter, when the seed lies within the clods before the buds spring forth and the lily and tender Vine? Can you stop all the plants and trees of the Earth from bearing, that they shall not bring forth their fruits in due season?  
Can you make night day, or day night? Or can you make Truth Error, or Error Truth, or call it so? Can you stop the springs of the Sea, or all the springs in Rocks and Mountains? And what doth these things figure forth?  
Can you hinder all the birds of the field from singing, or the horses for neighing, or the beasts from lowing, or all the fish of the Sea from breeding, or can you hinder the Creation for bringing forth? Then you may say we can hinder God in his work.  
Is it by a Law you will limit the Holy One, and not suffer sin to be reproved in your gates?  
And is it by a law you will suffer the Priests to make havoc of peoples goods, and spoil them, and prison them to death that do no work for, and be compelled to a Church made of ston? is not this like the Heathen that compel people to worship a god of ston, which is all without the Church of God, the worship of God in the Spirit, which love constrains.  
And could you have stopped the flood that drowned the whole World for their wickedness; when God had given them fullness, that lived in idleness and served not him, among whom the Righteous person was a fool that among them preached righteousness.  
Can you quench the fire of the Almighty, the everlasting burning, which will consume the wicked world that is reserved for it? And all persecutors among whom are laws and forms, and husks, and shells, but fruit, kernel, life and power is wanting, among whom the preachers of righteousness are as fools, and which men in this ungodly and wicked world are full and Idle, who serve not the Lord but their own lusts and pleasures, and such as reprove them in the gate and warn them to repent, are become a prey among them, against whom is their laws to whip and prison them, and banish them that are diligent in the work and service of the Lord.  
Well, but can you hinder the stars from rising? The morning Star for breaking forth, and the Moon and the Sun from breaking forth? then you may say we can hinder the work of the Lord. Can you hinder the seeds which yieldeth seed for bringing forth, but in one place or other it will bring forth, and in all places you cannot stop it by your Laws? Hath the woman fled into the wilderness, is it an outward Wood, is not all Christendom more like Wolves then Lambs, and more like a wilderness then a Garden, and hath not all Teachers and Rulers in it that could not endure to have him and wickedness cried against, been out of the power of godliness?  
And is it not to their shane that they have these things to be reproved, and it cannot bear it? Is not this a shane to all these workmen, diggers, and plowers, and planters, that the Earth lies waste like a howling wilderness, and full of deserts, and is almost full of mazed and distracted people, which are almost at their wits end, and there they are thirsty for Bread and Water? And wants the Pools and Springs.  
Can you over-run the wild beasts? Dare you take the lion by the tooth? Dare ever a warrior of you all with all his carnal weapons, called Ministers, Professors, Teachers, take the wild heifer by the horn, and swing her about, as Judah did of old? Can you tame the wild bear, and fight with the lion, is any of you of Judahs Tribe, or will all your coverings cover you from the wrath of God, the greatest persecutors of you all, will not the Scriptures be fulfilled upon you, that you will fly to the Rocks to cover you, who would quench the Spirit of God, and limit the Holy One, and despise prophecies, and say Revelation is ceased.  
Can you stop God for revealing his secrets to them that fear him, or the Spirit of God from revealing to them that be born of it? Can you stop the wind from blowing, then may you not say we can stop this birth from being born of the Spirit? Can you stop the mouth of God when he speaks in his Prophets, or can you only take their bodies( if permitted.) Can you stop the Plagues, the Viols, and that is to come upon the persecutors, and false worshippers? Can you refuse the cup of the wrath of the Almighty, when it is given to you? Can you turn your mouth and your head aside for not drinking of it?  
Can you stop the Lord God from giving his gifts to men, to such as hath been rebellious to him, or will you say we will stop them that they shall not Minister that hath received the gift, and we will have our own Ministers which we made, and our own Church which we made of wood and ston, and we will compel all by a law to maintain them, and to maintain our Church, or else we will make them give triple? And they that take it will take triple of triple, and say there is nothing that is perfect to be looked for in this life; hath not the Blood of Christ the one offering, the Covenant of God been made of none effect by you, and among you, which perfected for ever all them that are Sanctified, and blots out sin and iniquity; and they that have this blood doth it not cleanse from sin and dead works to serve the living God? Are they not all in their sins and dead works that have not drunken and eaten the flesh of Christ and without life?  
Can you stop the inspiration of the Almighty, that the Lord should not inspire his way, his mind, and himself, and his Truth to his people? will you have Christ to reign, that fine and imprison men because they will not swore? And is not your honor from below, that fines and imprisons men that will not doffe their Hats, and ye in your Earthly Crowns which must be laid in the dust, did ever any that worshipped God in the Spirit and in the Truth, persecute any since the dayes of Christ? Did ever any in the true Church which is in the end of the Law, persecute any about the Church, since the dayes of the Apostles, but the whore the false Church, the Beast and the Dragon? And Antichrist? answer me this if you can,  
G. F.   

To all such as feeds the Priests till they turn against them.  
THe Black Presbyterians( so called) and Priests and Cavaliers which are stirring, you being out of the power which had the Dominion first over them; what now are Priests Cavaliers, Presbyterians saying, curse ye Meroz, that will not come to fight against the Mighty meaning the Parliament, and all the honest people of the Nation to destroy them? And what are they now hauling against you as they have been against the Quakers? Will nothing satisfy the Priests and the rest but blood, have they not been the stirers up for war and blood always? What have you fed them with Stipends, Augmentations, and tithes, and voted up tithes for them, that they come to be fed with tithe Eggs, Pigs, Chickens and Corn, and with the spoil of the Innocent, till they kick against you, as they have done against them whom they have hailed before Courts at Assizes and Sessions,( the Innocent) and have cursed them and prisoned some of them till death? And what now are they so fat fed that they curse them that will not come to fight against the Parliament, have you fed them so far that they kick against you like wild horses, that they snort, that there is such a snorting among them against their feeders? have you fed them like wild bulls, and Heifers, that now they run against you with their horns? surely the Foderers of these have not well looked about them; have not these been called Ministers of the Gospel, but now how comes it that they preach up war? is not the Gospel a Gospel of Peace; these are bad cattle, horses, heifers? and bulls, that kicks against their foderers, and runs with their horns against their foderers, and you have never taken their maintenance away, who runs with their horns against the Just, and treads over the Just, and you will never take it away till they run against you, and tread over you; but now it may be you will feel it; But I must tell you the Sun is set upon all the Priests in this Nation, and such as be like minded, and that is the Word of the Lord God to this present age and many more; And have they  told you that Quakers would kill you, & the Quakers would rise, till they be up themselves, there is the false thief; and now he is come out of his hole of darkness, but I must tell you that under the covering there yet lies a darkness, but it may be they will tell you they are misled, to save their Stipends, Tithes and Gleab-lands, and the Priests their Augmentations, and lives, and these things are all seen over by the Light.   

Concerning Swearing; Also concerning loving Enemies; concerning the Sabbath; concerning who are fit to bear office for Christ, and other whole somethings.  
CHrists Commands to his that must Rule and Judge in his Kingdom, in his Power and Authority. I say unto you swore not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is the Throne of God, nor yet by the Earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the great King, neither shalt thou swore by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black; but let your communication be yea, yea, and nay, nay, for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil, mark, is not this the infallible way to stand, not to swear at all, but let your communication be yea and nay in all controversies and differences, Trads and exchangings, it cometh of evil if it be more then these, yea and nay, this is the Doctrine in the authority; Therefore swearing by the Bible, by the Evangelist, by the cross, cometh of evil, it is more then yea and nay, in the evil; So not an universal but is to be condemned, James saith, if you believe he spoken infallibly, but above all things my Brethren swore not, Mark, these were the true Christians swore not neither by Heaven nor by Earth, nor any other oath, but let your yea be yea; mark again, & your nay nay least you fall into condemnation, so ye that swear by Heaven or Earth or any other oath are fallen into condemnation, and ye that draw people to swear are in the condemnation; Therefore there is no man in the Government of Christ that is a swearer, and therefore you that call yourselves Christians, let no man bear office that will take an oath, for oaths cometh of evil & are above yea and nay, and ye that swear are in the condemnation; now if you say the Jews swore and was to perform their oath to the Lord and swore by the Lord, yea they did so and the Scripture saith thou shalt perform thy oath to the Lord, and the oath was given among them for the ending of strife, which Christ ends the Law and the strife, and redeems out of the Earth, where there need be nothing among the people but yea and nay in their communication, for all the swearing hath come from the evil, and from such as hath been in the condemnation, and would bring others since the dayes of the Apostles, some swearing by the Book, some swearing by the cross, some by one thing some by another, which are not worthy to be called the Ministers of Christ, nor have had no command from him, for he never set up a law nor the Apostles that there should be swearing among the Christians.  
2. Do to all men as you would have them do to on and on this hangs all the Law and the Prophets, to do as you would be done by.  
3. I say unto you, love your enemies; now the Jews was to kill them, the Heathen with the outward sword, but the Doctrine of Christ was to love enemies, who saith he comes to save mens lives, and gave his Body for the life of the World, for the Jews was them that persecuted their enemies, as you the Hypocrites & false Christians since the dayes of the Apostles; It was said of them of old time, thou shalt hate thy enemy & love thy neighbour, but I say unto you love your enemies, saith Christ, here his law and bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that persecute you, that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven, that loves enemies, that you may appear to be as you have said you are under grace; Now where is the law to persecute about Religion, Church Worship, Priests Maintenance, or Ministers of the Gospel as you call them? doth not these things stink and give an evil savour, and have ye not done this since the Apostles dayes in the whole christendom? so if you love them that love you, what reward have you, do not the Publicans so and the Pharisees, and what singular thing do you more then they that hates, so have not the Christians love been like the Pharisees, that have hated enemies, yea and one another, and so have broken the commands of Christ, and are not the Children of the most High? but ye may see how Christians have been in the Pharisees love, loved their friends, and hated their enemies, and out of the singular thing, out of the love of God and Christ, but doth even as the Publicans and Pharisees did; therefore have they killed mens lives, not saved them, about Church-worship, as the jews did with Christ the Son of God who hath all Power in Heaven and Earth, whose Doctrine is to love enemies, and love one another, that is the command to the Christians, but they have killed one another, the Christians so called, about Church-worship, and Priests maintenance, and Religion, and so differs nothing from Heathen and Publicans.  
4. One man esteems one day above another, another man accounts every day alike, but let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind, let no man judge and set his Brother at nought about such things, much less persecute; but if you say thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath day, That was said to the jews and not to the Christians, and he was to be stoned to death that did any manner of work upon it.  
5 Let no man bear office for Christ that will not do Justice, and judge equally a mans business without he put off his hat to him, but fine him and cast him in prison, for such God will bow & overturn, let no man bear office that will respect persons, or would have his person respected, let no man bear an office that will not do it freely for the Common-wealth sake, and the Nations good; and this will be the way to stop that which will eat up the poor; nor no drunkard nor profane person, nor persecutor have the name of an officer for Christ, and let the least in the Church among all you that are called Christians judge of outward things.  
6. And let no one be put to death for cattle or Money, or such like Creatures, but make equal laws and Judges.  
7. Let no man be forced to maintain a Minister by laws and acts, & hailings up to Courts, but let all them be disannulled, for this hath been all contrary to the mind of Christ, set up since the dayes of the Apostles, both Protestants and Papists.  
8. Let there be no papists that will have their Inquisitions, Goals, and stocks, and whips, nor banishments about worship, Church Ministers, and their maintenance, which is got up since the dayes of the Apostles, which is quit contrary to Christs mind.  
And all Christians that you be not worse then the Turks and Heathen, among whom people may live and profess their own Religion, paying them some tribute or custom, and shall not be molested, but among you the Christians, paying you custom, excise, your taxes, maintenance by force for a Minister which doth no work for them, yet they are haled to Courts, and prisoned till death, and yet we are fined and imprisoned for not swearing, and not doffing the hat, and not suffered to travail to visit one another, but taken up and whipped, and besides taken up for going to a meeting, & our horses taken from us, besides our meetings broken up and our houses broken, and we knocked down, and our blood  shed, our windows broken, our clothes rent, and we stoned in the High-ways, and is a mock and scoff to all people and a derision; and the hands of evil doers strengthened, and yet in many places compelled to go to the Steeple-house, or else fined, yet if he go thither and ask a question, fined and imprisoned; Now if this authority have not been worse then the Turks and the Heathens; for whether or no they would have served us so if we should have paid them custom, excise and taxes, to have maintained their poor, whether or no they would not have protected us better then these? but our protection hath been the Power of God, and whether or no the Turks & Heathen would have forced us to have maintained their worshipping houses, their Clerks & their Ministers, and have given them their taxes besides, and excise and customs as we do to you, whether or no in this we should have lived as slaves, and are yet among you not as free people; for all Kings, Emperors, hath got up among the Christians since the dayes of the Apostles to judge of outward things, and to rule over people, whereas Christ should be the Judge, Christ should be the King, and the least of the Church should judge of outward things.   

That such Teachers as say men shall not be perfect while upon Earth are Teachers of windy Doctrine.  
ARe not all the Teachers of the World that say men shall not be perfect, nor come to it while they be upon the Earth, are not they the Teachers of the windy Doctrine that carry men about? Is not that which is not Perfect windy? And are not men carried about with the Doctrine of these men, mark, carried about, which preach men shall not be perfect? And is not this the Doctrine of men and not of God, which teacheth that men shall not be perfect, and is not this windy? For look upon all the World, and behold the many Teachers that be therein, how they carry about people with a Doctrine, and is not this windy that doth not stablish, which is not perfect? And is not the Doctrine of Christ perfect, and the Doctrine of the Prophets perfect, and the Doctrine of the apostles perfect? And is not the Doctrine of the Apostles for the perfecting, and the Doctrine of Christ for the perfecting and the establishing and settling, and to present every man perfect, & to bring them to a perfect man? But on the contrary, is not the Doctrine of men windy, which carries about people, tosseth them to and fro, is not here the cunning sleights which lie in wait to deceive? For how hath people been tost to and fro with the doctrines of men in this age, since the men of this age can remember? yea the Priests the Teachers themselves, how many conditions have they been in within these few years, and likewise how many conditions have the people been in under them within these few years? Is not here tossing to and fro with the windy doctrine, and none is brought to a perfect man, but these Teachers deny that any shal be brought to a perfect man; All people consider how many conditions your Teachers have been in within these few years since you can remember, and how unestablished they have been, them and yourselves, consider how unestablished them and you are, carried about with every wind; take notice, with every wind, mark the word wind! and tossed to and fro with it, Learn the figure how the wind tosseth to and fro; these be them that be out of perfection, present none of you perfect, they themselves being none of them perfect, having not received the gift of God which is perfect, which is given to the Ministers of God for their work, for the perfecting of the Saints; so they having not received the gift of God which is perfect, can they Minister that which is perfect for the perfecting of others?   

Christians are not to wrestle with Flesh and Blood.  
WRestle not with Flesh and Blood ye Christians, for it is the practise of Heathens, Apostates and Jews; overcome evil with good; receive strangers and not kill them; try all things and do not quench the Spirit you may all prophesy one by one, and if any thing 〈◇〉 revealed to another that fits by, let the first hold 〈◇〉 peace, that all may learn and be edified and comforted, and this was in all the Churches of God, which was the Apostles Doctrine, but the Apostates is far from it, and Christ Jesus saith, let the tares grow until the Harvest, least you should pluck up the Wheat; but these Apostates since the Apostles dayes hath not obeied his Doctrine, but killed with racks and inquisitions, and burnt with Faggots;( So such that would be plucking in their mad blind zeal contrary to Christs command;) & Christ came to save mens lives, but these have destroyed them; saith the Apostle we have not power over mens faith, and is the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory held with respect of persons? And must not they that worship God, worship him in the Spirit, in the Truth, which the Devil is out of, and none can worship in it,( the Spirit) that quenches the Spirit and grieves and vexes it.  
Did not Christ foresee who taught to love Enemies, and not to resist evil? And if thy Brother offend thee, forgive him, or tell him betwixt thee and him, and if he will not hear thee, then tell it to others, and if he will not hear you, then tell it to the Church, and if he will not hear the Church, then let him be an Heathen, and not kill him.  
And the Apostate Christians are offended at Paul, who says that the Priesthood is changed that takes tithes, and the Law is changed, and the Commandement disannulled that gave them.   

several Queries to know who were the first setters up of many Inventions and practices that are now used.  
WHo was the first Man or the first council, or King or Pope, that set up colleges and Universities to make Ministers, and in what year?  
Who was the first Pope or King, that set up tithes or Gleab-lands, and Ester-reckonings, and Midsummer-dues, and mortuaries, and in what year?  
Who was the first King or counsel, or Queen, that set up all these holidays, as Candlemas, michaelmas, Christmas, and Lammas, Peters day, Maries day, and All-Saints day, &c. Who was the first that set up these things, and all other holy dayes which is set down in the almanac, who was the first that set up these things, and in what year were they set up, and where lived he that was the Author of them.  
Who was the first Pope, King or Queen that set up the Steeple-house and Chancels, and Vesteries, and what was his name, and where lived he, and in what year were they set up, that they were turned to be a Church?  
Who was the first Man, King or Queen, that set up Preaching by an hour-glass, and in what year?  
Who was the first Pope, King or Queen, that set up the Surplace, and that their Ministers should go in black Coats, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, King or Queen, that set up preaching by an hour-glass, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up Preaching over the dead, and funeral Sermons for ten shillings more or less as they can get it, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, King, Queen, or Bishop, that gave the names to the old Masse-house, which ye call a Church, to be a Temple, or a Church, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, King, Queen or Bishop, that first set up swearing among Christians, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up doffing of Hats, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that said men should pray with two Caps, and with their Hats off of their head, and then their heads not covered when the Hat was of, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that first set up sprinkling of infants, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that first set up singing of Davids psalms in metre, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that mentioned these several orders in their Universities, as Chancellor, and 'vice Chancellor, Doctors of Divinity, and Bachelors of Divinity, Doctors of physic, Masters of Art, and Bachelors of Art, &c. and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, Pope, or Bishop, that gave the names of Doctors, and Masters, and Bachelors, seeing we do not red Master Paul, Master Peter, nor Doctor Paul, Doctor Peter, & c?  
Who was the first King, Bishop, Pope, that set up the seven Arts, and Sciences, as Grammar, logic, &c.  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Hebrew, Greek, and Latin to be the original, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Images and Pictures, and that men should bow down to them, and in what year?  
Who was the first Man, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up the Crosses, and ordained them which now are set up in the Steeple-houses, Flags, Ships, Money, Maces, Seals, and other things, and in your Markets, and in what year?  
Who was the first Bishop, King, or Queen, that set up Clerks to say Amen, and turning the hour-glass, and hanging the Pulpit, and in what year?  
Who was the first Bishop, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up the seven Sacraments, and after that the two Sacraments, and who gave that name Sacrament, and in what year?  
Who was the first Bishop, King, Queen or Pope, that set up Bells, and Chimes, and ringing of Bells in their several orders, and Christening of their Bells, and hollowing their ground, and making it holier then another place, who was the first Author of these things, and in what year.  
Who was the first Pope, King, Bishop, that set up rails, Altars, Fonts, Holy water, and kneeling at Altars and Sacraments, and in what year  
Who was the first Pope or Bishop that said every knee should bow, when Jesus was name, he doth not say that every knee shall bow when his name is name, but at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow; there is a difference, to bow at the Name, and to bow when he is name.  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Augmentations, or Stipends, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that set up, that men should be seven years, or fourteen years more or less at the Universities before they should be Ministers, or Doctors of Divinity, or whether or no these have not been all since the dayes of the Apostles, and who was the first setter up of these things, and in what year?  
And who was the first setter up of mass and Common-prayer book, and in what year?  
And who was the first setter up of Nunneries, and all the Tribes that is among the Papists, as, white friars, black friars, gray friars, and all their orders, &c. And in what year were they set up, and who was the setter up of the first day to be the sabbath day, and in what year?  
And who was the first setter up and giver of all these names that the dayes of the week are called by, as Sunday, and monday, and Teusday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, and saturday, and in what year were they set up?  
And who was the first setter up that men should red so many Chapters, and then sing a Psalm, and then Pray, and then take a Text, and then Preach, who was the first setter up of this manner of doing, and in what year?  
And who was the first setter up of all these Parish-Teachers, and Parishes, and giving them the names of Vicars, and Curates, and Priests and Clerks, & c?  
And who was the setter up that the Pope, King or Queen, should have the tenth of the Tenths, or the tithe of the tithes, and in what year were they first set up?  
And who was the first setter up that men should wear gold and costly array, and Feathers, and all this costly attire, seeing the Apostle saith, not wearing of gold nor costly apparel, therefore who is the first Author of these things since the dayes of the Apostles among the Christians?  
And who was the first setter up of Organs, and of painting of windows, and in what year?  
Who was the first Bishop, Pope, King or Queen that set up Churching of women for money, and marrying for money, and in what year?  
Who was the first setter up of all these plays, May-games and cards at Christmas, and in what year?  
And who was the first that said the Scriptures is the Word of God, seeing the Scriptures says, God is the Word; and who was the first that said, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, is the Original, and the four Books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the Gospel, who was the first setter up of all these and in what year?  
And who was the first King Bishop or Queen, that was the first that began to persecute for Religion sake among the Christians, and who was the first Christian that persecuted, seeing the Apostles said, they warred not with flesh and blood, their weapons were Spiritual?  
And who was the first that began to persecute men about their Church, about their Ministry, about the Prophets, Apostles, and Christs words, and who was the first setter up of prisons for them, Inquisitions, Racks and Tortures, and in what year?  
Who was the first that began to banish Christians that had the name of Christians themselves, was he a King, was she a Queen, was he a Bishop, was he a Pope, and in what year lived he, seeing Christ said love your Enemies; who was the first King, Queen or Bishop that taught people to say good-even, or good-morrow, and that women should make courtesies, and men should make legs, bring the Author, and in what year?  
And who was the first King, or Queen, or Bishop that tolerated wearing of Rings, Gold lace, ribbons, Braclets, jewels, Beads, spotting their Faces, painting of them, who was the first Author of these since the dayes of the Apostles, amongst the Christians, and in what year?  
Who was the first Author, King, Bishop, Queen, that people should go in black, that which they call mourning at the death of any man, and in what year?  
Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, or Pope, that set up that christians should beat themselves with a rope tied about them, got up since the dayes of the Apostles?  
And who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that set up that men and women should pray with beads, and that outward candles should burn night and day, and in what year?  
And who was it that set up a set maintenance by compulsion, a maintenance for a Ministry, and from such as they do not teach, and in what year have they got up since the dayes of the Apostles?  
Who was the first setter up of ecclesiastical Courts, and Promooters, and the ecclesiastical Judges, and in what year have they got up?  
Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that first set up Marrying with a Ring, and sprinkling Infants with the sign of the cross?  
Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that gave the name of Saints to Steeple-houses, and in what year?  
Who was the first in Christendom, that set up consecrations, that said Bread and Wine was the Body and Blood of Christ, which they call transubstantiation, and in what year?  
Who was the first that set up prisons, and kindled fires, since the dayes of the Apostles amongst the Christians?  
Who was the first that held up the wicked fist, and caused the smoke amongst the Christians, and who are the Frogs and Locusts spoken of in the Revelations, and hath not this smoke and this bottomless pit come up since the dayes of the Apostles, that persecuting murdering power, & c?  
G. F.  
THE END.