By Reason of the DISTRACTION that is in The Roman Empire, These be Delivered Especially to the Emperor, and then also to all other Potentates, Kings, Princes, Rulers, Governors, and Magistrates, in all Europe; Who ought to consider, according to Conscience, what their Office and Place is; and not to Rule, Judge, and Domineer, without Righteousness, or against GOD: as hath been done for a long while  
By the workings of Satan in this false Jerusalem: and yet is still so done more and more apparently.  
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THere are many within and without the Roman Empire, who ascribe these times of distractions, desolations, and utter destructions of Countries and of mankind, both in soul and body, according to their own affections; and lay the fault thereof sometime upon this, sometime upon that cause, and every one that is most engaged and interessed would shift the blame from themselves; but very few hitherto have been found who have discovered the true principal ground from whence these distractions took their original at the beginning, and have broken forth in such a consuming fire of the anger of God, that people fall into the hands, and upon the swords of one another.  
For they are but Petitiones principii, to allege one while that the fault is in the contrariety of opinions in Religion, and the various misunderstandings about reconciliation of matters in Religion; another while, that the fault is in the exorbitancy of this or that person, or in the too greedy desire of some to domineer and aspire to great Dominion: and such seeming pretences they propound to be the causes of it. But the question still remains to be made, whence the particular causes of the strife about opinions in Religion, of that exorbitancy, insolency, and greedy desire to domineer, and make all others servants and slaves to them, hath its original ground? Out of what evil Well or Fountain do these deadly poisonous streams break forth and so mightily prevail, to produce such destruction and desolation so powerfully; and who, among the children of men, is the chief cause thereof?  
Here, if the Emperor in particular, because of the distractions in Germany, and every one else, rightly consider and weigh the cause in their hearts and consciences, according to the Testimony of God, and the power, and the truth of his Word, without the pre-imagined conceits and humane inventions, they shall find no other fundamental cause but this, That the spiritual Clergy, who usurpedly set up and institute themselves, and elect and choose themselves to be such, are the chief Cause of these Distractions and Confusions in all Nations.  
FOr after they had forsaken the Covenant of the second or New Testament, 
Joh 12.  [which teacheth] to walk in the Light according to the Law of the Spirit, which maketh alive in Christ Jesus, 
Rom. 8.  they blasphemed the way of Truth, 
2 Pet. 2. Phil. 3 1 Cor. 3.11 1 Joh. 1.24 1 Tim. 2 Hos. 8.10, 12  rend and separated themselves with Schi●●● and Divisions, and so are not united in God; and they being without the spiritual Communion which the true faithful Believers (through the only Mediator Jesus Christ) should have with God, every one of them, some here, some there, according to their own pleasures, have erected or congregated Churches and built Altars of Abominations, Jer. 11.13. whereby people, in the inward ground of their Hearts or Consciences, 
Mat. 24 Eph. 4. Col. 3 Rom. 16. Psa. 12.80 1 Pet. 5. Eze. 34. Jer. 8.12 14.23. Is. 29  by breaking the bands of the Peace and of the Love of God, have separated from one another, whereby the vineyard of the Lord must needs come to be destroyed; whereupon then all the flocks were scattered in themselves by one another and by the faith or belief which they have covenanted and sworn to keep, are made a prey to people void of Consciences, no better then wild Beasts, Murderers, and Tyrants, for the disagreeing, distracted, and confounded Contentions of the Pastors and Hirelings, who only serve the world and their own bellies, 
1 Tim. 6. Joh. 10. 1 Joh. 4 Phil. 3. Rö. 16. 2 Pet. 2 Psa. 12.14. 59 Col. 2.  and seduce many innocent hearts with sweet words and pleasing Sermons: And now the people, who walk in their destructive ways, in Error and Darkness of Conscience, Eph. 4.5. with Hypocritical works, which themselves have contrived in their reason, 2 Pet. 2. according to the Commandments and Ordinances of Men, will make as if themselves were excellent, honest, pious, holy and righteous. Man 7.15, 23.  
Hereby it is further made known and discovered, 
2 Cor. 11 Luk. 17 2 Cor. 3.4 1 Cor. 4 Rom. 1 Psa. 12 2 Tim. 3 2 Pet. 2 Mat. 24 Mark 13 1 Cor. 6 Epist. Judas. Rom. 3.5, 6 Col. 3 Rev. 18 Is. 13.34.56  that it might be considered, after what manner Satan hath changed himself into an Angel of Light, and hath clothed himself with a false show, and in and by them hath darkened the Kingdom of God in the hearts and souls of other men, and wholly abrogated the power thereof, 2 Tim. 3. And on the contrary hath renewed and set up his own Kingdom, the Kingdom of Pride, Subtilty, Craft, Lying, Covetousness, Wrath, Contention, Strife, Murder, Hatred, Malice, Envy, and Eternal Death in the sinful birth of the Humane Nature; in that they pretend as if they in their contentious and confused do, had full power of the Keys, or Ju● Divinum over Heaven, to bring the old Adam thither by their word and promise, where with they had alured the wicked souls. to them; whereupon the abomination of desolation is come into the holy place, viz. into the Humane Soul, wherein there should be a Temple or habitation of God built and set up: from whence, such hellish fruits of sinful actions of the old birth have changed it into a Cage of Devils, of all unelean spirits and hateful birds which have broke forth from thence, and so have gotten the opper hand in this world, as is manifest, 
Mat. 24 Isa. 42.43 2 Tim. 3 Luke 17.18 Mat. 24. Rom. 1. Is. 1.3 5.59 4 Esd. 5, 6, 7 8, 9.14, 15, 16 Jer. 7.8.9.18 2 Tim. 4 Mat. 24 Mark 13 Zech. 13 Epist. Judas. 2 Pet. 2 Jer. 5.23 Eph. 4 Mark 13 1 Tim. 1.6  & as clear as the Noon day, and long ago foretold by the holy Scripture, and declared by the Word of God, viz. That in these last days horrible times shall come, wherein there shall be neither Faith, Love, nor Righteousness to be found, but Oppression, Mischief, all kinds of malice and wickedness, undermining crafty cunning subtlety and unrighteousness shall get the upper hand among the children of men, and destroying works of iniquity shall get to the highest pitch, which yet the Teachers in the outward Temple or in Babel do boast in, saying, here is Christ, or there he is: so that if it were possible for the Devil, that arch enemy, hereby to seduce the Elect of God, and allure them to all wickedness, they might be constrained to do evil.  
Now because every-unclean spirit of his Crew and Sect, who depend on him, or are addicted to his external matters, is persuaded and flattereth himself, as if, one in this way, another in that way among them, being unregenerated in the spirit of his mind, do but use their Ceremonies, or follow their Church way, are true Christians: and then according to their Scholastic do, people think themselves bound to maintain their way against all other, by the sword: From thence it is come to pass, 
Rev. 16. Gal. 5 4 Esd. 5.9.15.16  that for these many years the inward fire of the angry wrath of God hath been stirred up and kindled in the hearts of those men by the contentions, disputations, and bitter croakings of Frogs; whereby one People, one Kingdom, County and City so furiously burn in outward strife and contention, and rise up against another; 
2 Chro. 15 1 Cor. 3. Isa. 42.57. Mat. 13. Tit. 1 2 Tim. 2. J●●. 3.4. 1 Cor. 4 Eph. 4 Heb. 10. Col. 1.3 Mat. 5. Tit. 2.3. Psa. 10 36.68.80.83 94. Eph. 4 Rom. 1.3 Thes. ● 2 Tim. 2 1 Joh. 3.  and yet they all boast and proclaim, that they do it to defend and protect their Religion, and the glory, and name of God therein, and for the rooting out of wickedness, which maketh Satan now laugh in his sleeve, to see that he hath set those together by the ears that boast themselves for Christians, in such an unchristian, and worse them bestial hostility, for which they have not the least precept, example, or testimony from Christ, nor his Apostles, or Disciples, and so put them beside the Kingdom of Grace which should be in their hearts, consisting in Faith, Love, Peace, and Unity, Truth, Mercy, and Righteousness. Thus subtly, under colour of an angry zeal and imagination, as if they did God good service thereby in his Kingdom, he setteth up Wrath, Anger, Enmity, Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Unrighteousness, and Unmercifulness; and so by strong delusions hathled them captive, and entangled them in his fetters and chains, and compelled them to do according to his will and meaning, and that which is according to his disposition and nature; which is indeed the abomination of desolation, 
Mat. ●4. Mark 13. Dan. 8.9.  which is now set up in the holy place by the departing and falling away from Christ; from hence the abomination is grown, which is now made manifest and risible to the eyes of the whole world.  
For all such things done by this or the other party about the outward distractions, 
2 Chron. 15 4 Esd. 9.15. jor. 30. Syra. 15.1 joh. 3.4. Rev. 9.17.20 joh. 8. Eph. 4 5. Psal. 36.58.59.64.73 141. 2 Tim. 4. john. 16. Neh. 3. Zep. 3. jer. 2.7. Zach. 11. Ps. 44.74 Ezek. 22. jer. 5.8.18.23. Rom. 1. Acts 20. Ezek. 6.7.8 9.13. Psa. 5.55.58. Gal. 5 1 john 4. Psalm 144. 1 Cor. 13. Luke 6.11. Psalm 12.49.109. I am. 2.3 4.5 Ephos. 5. 1 john 3. Gen. 4. Rev. 16.19. Hebr. 4.10 Rom. ●. 14.  or customary committing of wickedness, whereby mankind is oppressed, suppressed, tormented, vexed, wasted, desolated and destroyed both in soul and body: These are not the works of God, who is the fountain of all goodness, and is love itself; but they are the fruits of the bottomless pit, and works of the Devil, who is a liar and a murderer from the beginning, and the author of all evil and mischief; who yet under a glorious and holy show, especially in these whom the world calleth spiritual, with a very fine cunning slight of argument can persuade Kings, Potentates and Magistrates, that they please God, and do him very acceptable service, when they raise such murdering Massacres, and bloody Wars; and when disturbances and tumults are made for the upholding of their unspiritual affairs, though the poor souls thereby come to be torn, murdered and slain in a cruel manner, Countries and people miserably wasted and desolated, yea brought to utter destruction: and when once the burning fire is kindled by their artificial sorcery, and more and more inflamed, than he knoweth how to wrest and pervert the holy Scripture cunningly after his lying manner very peremptorily, and to use and turn it to be a cloak to cover his abominable unrighteøusness, wickedness and knavery; whereas the Scripture doth witness clearly, that the wicked ways of the bloodthirsty & deceitful are an abomination unto God, and that they are not of God who do not love their neighbours, & help them in their want, let them boast as much as they will of God, and of their works, all is false; for though they should suffer their bodies to be burned, and give all their goods in alms to those of their own opinion, it is mere hypocrisy: and the works of the desolation of the poor, needy and afflicted, testify of their malicious, wrathful, envious, bitter and deceitful hearts, and of their spirit of darkness; and that they are of the number of Cain, whose works are naught, wicked and abominable, and therefore they always persecute, destroy and slay their honest brother Abel: But ere long they shall feel in their hearts the Judgement of the Word of God, which penetrateth through all things as a sharp twoedged sword, and judgeth and revealeth the thoughts of man: And in the other world they shall 〈◊〉 the sentence of their horrible Judgement; 
Mat. 7.25.  Depart from me ye evil done, I have not sent you, neither have I known you: 
Psalm. 50. Luke 36.12  Also away from the ye enised into everlasting hell fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels, ye have eryed Lord, Lord, and have taken my Covenant into your false mouths, 
Mat. 7.21.25  and yet you have not done according to my will; for I have been poor, nalied, hungry, thirsty, sick, in prison, and in misery in my members, and you have not only not administered to me, 
jerem. 30. Amos 5.8. Mich. 3.6.  or helped me, but you have taken away from me that which was mine own, and men over said me inprison, persecuted hunted, worried and vexed me, and have upheld your unrighteousness and wicked do, with the swear and blood of the poor, 
james 5.  and have made yourselves fat & fair for the day of slanghter, which will come upon you for these things.  
According to this, 
2 Pet. 3. Isaia. 3.6.8.9.24. jerem. 5.7.9.11.14.16. Hosea 4. Collos. 2.  now every one that is subjected under the outward desolation, and incorporated with at, and is not wilfully hardened and blinded, may very well find, and know well enough in his heart and conscience, that such abominable and destroying works of the present desolation cannot be protected in the sight of God, the righteous Judge, by an imagined absolution, or by some great commendation, preached in a formons by the unspiritual CLERGY, or spiritual, elected and chosen by themselves to that office, who teach, that God hath service done him thereby. 
Heb. 10.12. Mat. 13. Re. 14.15.20. Mala. 4. Epist. jude. Eph. 2. Col. 1 Rev. 19.20 Rom. 1. Zeph. 3. john 5. Mat. 13.23. Ezek. 13. 2 Pet. 2, Mat. 7. Mat. 3. ja. 5 Mich. 3   
For in this so long appointed and denounced day of harvest, wherein the sentence of God shall be revealed, and the books of the consciences of every one shall be opened, 4. Esdras 6.16. God will send down afar other kind of Judgement upon the unbelieving and ungodly hypocrites, scorners and despisers, than the unspiritual or fleshly dreamers expect, who instead of the Kingdom of Grace, or of the heavenly essentiadity, into which the faithful should be ingrassed by the redemption of Christ, they have set up and propagated to the Kingdom of the Devil, and of all disturbance, of anger, contention and division, of hatred, envy and bitterness by their own appropriated and usurped authority, which in a proud: sta●●●y manner, Isai 28. they all for their hypocrisy and lies uphold which Kangdom or darkness they also now will descend and maintain by those who follow after their destruction in the broad way, and are bewitched by them and their false spiritual show, wherein they set forth themselves among them, with the strength of the Land, viz. that which they get by hook and by crook from the poor people.  
But seeing by this so desperate, yea devilish a purpose, 
Rev. 13. Rom. 14. Dan. ●. 7.  the Kingdom of God is not only hindered, which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, on which the universal, temporal and eternal welfare of mankind doth depend; 
Luke 17. Isai. 49.51 2 Tim. 3.4 Rev. 6. Psalm 12.  but Christ also in his members is put to open shame, about the knowledge and profession of the Word, or holy Name of God, and they are hated and persecuted for the truth's sake; and for that cause, from the beginning to this time, so many witnesses of God have been in most lamentable manner condemned and put to death; and the poor people are not only thus desolated, but by the instigation of such sorcerers, 
Ezech. 13  Malachi 3. Every one of whom will preserve and defend his own by that means: 
james 2.  they are in many places and Countries most unmercifully, tyrannically, and almost utterly destroyed, and rooted out with their own sweat and blood, 
Psa. 52.109  which these filthy men devour and gluttonize withal, 
2 Pet. 2.  wherewith they patch and stitch to their Babel those who never desire to return to God, that they may thereby uphold the Kingdom of darkness, 
Rev. 16.20  wherein one man is become a Devil to another; 
Mark 13.  therefore it shall be judged in such a manner, that not one stone of this false Jerusalem will be left upon another. Mat. 24.  
For the day of the Vengeance of God, 
2 Thes. 1. Luke 18.21 jeramiah 25 1 Cor. 3 Ep. jude. Psalm 14. Isaiah 52. 2 Cor. 11. Ezek 22 Isaiah 28. Rev. 20 Acts 20. Mat. 7. john 10. Titus 1. Ezek. 13 Deu. 1.10.17 Syrach. 10. Mich. 7. Psal. 58.92. jer. 5.10. 4 Esd. 11.12.15 Mich. 7.6. Rev. 16.  Isa. 61.63. for the deliverance of his Elect, shall begin or break forth with the overthrow and destruction of the glorious building of the Pastors or Shepherds, which every one hath heaped to himself, 2 Tim. 4. in his own Religion, Sect or Schism, 2 Pet. 2. who do nothing but devour the people, to nourish and maintain themselves; they have a long time blasphemed the Name of God, as to the redemption of Zion, and have most of all chief withstood the servants and witnesses thereof for the truth's sake, 2 Tim. 3. whom God hath a long time winked at, and their murdering of bodies and souls, which chief for their deceit sake in all places and Countries, hath been exceedingly practised, and yet have been absolved Ep. jud. by the false, thievish office of the keys of those horrible devouring wolves and hirelings, for their bellies sake, their filthy lucre, a bit of bread, and for a handful of barley.  
But being the office of Judgement, Rule and Government here upon earth doth nor belong to man, but to the Lord of Lords, and to God the supreme Judge, Wisdom 6. And being it doth not belong to any Ruler or Magistrate to domineer according to their own perverse wills and pleasures in the world, therefore it is fit that the Potentates should know the ways of the Lord, and the Laws and Rights of their God; as in particular, because of the distractions in Germany, the Emperor, and all other Potentates, Kings, Princes and Judges, who would avoid the remaining vials, or woes and plagues of the anger of God, should have long ago considered what they had to do in these so long continued great miserles and warlike distractions, 
Luke 21. Psal. 2.76. Nahem. 3. Zach. 11. Psal. 12.94. Isa. 52. Rev. 20. Ezek. 13 1 Tim. 4. 4. Esd. 15.16 2 Thes. 2. Rom. 9.11. jer. 30.50.51. Isa. 13.14.30.  by which Satan is altogether let lose with raging and raving fury, murdering, stealing, robbing, killing, and shedding of blood in the distraction of the poor, and especially in the oppression of the faithful, concerning whom the Name of God is blasphemed; they should no longer trust to any of their false Prophets, who flatter and soothe up every one in their party, jeremiah 28. and especially look no longer supersicially with hardened hearts, and blinded eyes upon the hipocritical cunning slights of Satan, because of the desolation and fire that hath risen from thence, as is manifest in the external distractions, and horrible ruins of Countries, which have been caused to break forth thus by the working of the Devil; but they should consider them seriously by entering deeply into their consciences, that God may not have cause to multiply and enlarge the misery and stormy tempest of his fiery wrath, according as he hath begun upon him and other Potentates. Psalm 137.  
For the false Prophets, 
Mat. 24.  who from the clear and plain testimonies, which for a long time have been revealed and brought to light, because of their bewitching Babilonish do, 
Isaiah 47.  should have given place to the Spirit of God, or the Testimony of Jesus Christ inwardly in themselves, and yet have not grown sober thereby, 
2 Tim. 2. Zeph. 1.  nor ever desired to acknowledge their cunning slights and abominations, nor considered the miserable and deplorable condition which mankind is brought into, chief for their sakes; but moreover do still, according to the working of the Devil inwardly in them, continually allure, entice, 
2 Thes. 2. Rev. 1.6. Romans 1. 2 Pet. 3. Mark 13.  and put on people to the furtherance of all mischief and wickedness: These together with those that uphold such wicked do with their braneadoes, shall be sent and thrown into hell, where such dispute and making of parties by perverting teachings will avail no more the stool or throne of the beast, and false Prophets. Revel. 16.19, 20.  
Whosoever they be that have always contemned and scorned the admonitions, warnings and threaten of God, 
Isaiah 28. Epist. jude. Mal. 3. 1 Thes. 5. Psalm 109. Zeph. 1.3. 2 Pet. 3.5.  and have made a laughing stock of them, and resist God inwardly in their hearts and consciences, with the sorcery of their false Prophets, and wholly subject themselves to the Devil, in this ruining desolation, and destroying of the just, the poor and miserable; they shall have only such a deliverance from the day of wrath, Rom. 1. and from the fiery Judgement thereof, as their fellow scorners and despisers in former times have had, whom God drowned in the deluge, and many other ways destroyed them, 
Gen. 6.7.19.  and cut them off. The people and nations of this present and last world, who heap sin upon sin, 
Romans 1. jer. 7.8. Ezek. 8.9. Isaiah. 29. coloss. 2. Acts 17. 1 Pet. 1.2. Mat. 15.23. Gal. 4. Joh. 4. 1 Tim. 2. Rom. 12. Phil. 2. Jer. 23. Isai. 66. Psal. 51. Isa. 57 Eph. 5. 1 Pet. 4. James 4. Ephes. 2. Epist. Judas. Syrach. 35. Psal. 10.72.75 Amos 6.8. Romans 1. Isaiah 8.28. Zeph. 1.3. Rev. 9.17.20 4 Esd. 5. Isaiah 1.5.29.59. 2 Tim. 3. Mat. 24.  and persevere & go on in their damnable course, for a while hitherto; they have not deceived God, but themselves, by their outward Church matters or false worship of God, whereby they would fain he hidden in their flyness, or abominations from God, who is every where present in Spirit, and is not blind, nor doth regard to be served in a well adorned Temple of stone, or Churches, according to the accustomed traditions, and invented opinions: For all those dwell and are in him, who are redeemed by Christ, and are built up and rooted in him, Col. 1.3. therefore he must not be served superficially and carelessly, in a show or in a custommary manner; but in the inward ground of the soul the heart and conscience in spirit and truth, with holy, pure, clean and upright thoughts, desires and actions, which he himself worketh by his word, and the power of his Spirit in the faithful: For he is not a God that is afar off, that standeth in need of a Vicegerent; but he is ever filling heaven and earth, and dwelleth by his word in them that are of the contrite and humble spirit of grace, and lose them the band of darkness, and the snares of death, who are such as do not purposely resist God, nor knowingly persist and go on in sin: But to the proud, kist-necked, obstinate, wrathful, envious, covetous and malicious, who live only according to the will of their flesh, of the world, and of their reason, after their own lusts and desires, looking after nothing but their own honour and glory, greatness and profit, and quite forget the miserable, that lie in the dust and ashes of death; yea daily make it still worse and worse by using their wicked power to maintain their perverse Government and vain do, to the perdition of whole mankind: To such he will be nothing else but a stone of offence, Rom. 9 1 Pet. 2. and a consuming fire of eternal burning. Isaiah 33.47.50.65.66. and they shall be swallowed up in the bottomless pit, from whence such damnable works have proceeded, where it will avail them but little, that they have prospered in their unrighteousness, tyranny, pernicious power and authority, to their own perdition and eternal torment of hell. Psalm 82.  
Therefore every one of what state, dignity and authority soever they be, 
Jer. 5.9. Wisd. 2.12. Isai. 49.60. Isai. 3.42.50 59 2 Cor. 4.  but especially the Potentates, Rulers, Magistrates, and Officers, who have authority to rule others according to Conscience, and should be Cherishers and Nursers of the Church or Congregation which God hath purchased with his blood, Act. 20. and who are not altogether held captive in blindness by the Devil, as to this horrible distraction, and snailed in the net or caught in his snare, they ought long ago to have opened the inward Eyes of their Conscience, 
Ezek. 5.6. ● 9.11.12.14.22.23.36. Col. 3. Rom. 1. Mat. 24 Eph. 5. Luke 19.20 Rev. 6.12.22 Isai. 5. Epist. Judas. Mat. 15. Acts 20. Mark 13. 1 Joh. 1.2.4 Epist. Judas.  and have had a care sometime to cleanse their hearts chief from the inward abomination, viz. Covetousness, Bravery, Pride, Subtilty, Circumvention, Force, Injury, Infidelity, Unrighteousness, and all other the works of darkness; from whence existeth all outward perdition, viz. Robbery, Murder, Theft, for which nothing but death and the eternal damnation of hell is deserved; that thereby some may be kept out of Hell, which now standeth wide open with its jaws or soul, and be delivered from the bands of eternal blackness, and so might be plucked out of the fire, and henceforth not suffer themselves to be tied and bound by humane Ordinances and Traditions to those men who preach perverse doctrine, whereby they seduce the whole world, and set themselves up to be the heads of the Churches among those people who are not of the Congregation of God, every one promising Heaven to the adherence of their own Sect or Schism, whereas themselves are but the slaves of perdition. 2 Pet. 2. Ministers or Servants, 2 Cor. 11. Stewards or Deputies of Satan, 2 Thes. 2. 
Math. 3.13.23.24. Joel 2 1 Cor. 15. 1 Pet. 2.4. 1 Thes. 5. Heb. 7.8.9.10.12.13. Eph. 1.5 Col. 1. 1 Cor. 6.7.  But according as every one acknowledgeth his long-practised wickedness and abomination, hath remorse or repenting sorrow for sins, and misdeeds, and in the inward ground of his heart or conscience desireth to dense himself from them, to be sober-minded, and henceforth resolveth to keep himself merely to Jesus Christ, the only high Priest, Arch-Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul that he may attain unto the universal or Catholic union or unity of the Body or Congregation where Christ only is the head of his Members, whom he hath redeemed with his blood, and delivered from the power of Darkness, and dearly bought to his eternal Kingdom, 1 Pet. 1.  
For the true faithful are not Clergy or Laity, Spiritual or Temporal, after the manner of the world, pleasing to this or the other party, 
Rom. 1.16.  who by the vanity in their Consciences are severed and departed from God, and have cut or sent themselves asunder, Hosea 10. 
Eph. 4. 2 Cor. 10 1 Cor. 6 Joh. 16. Rom. 8 1 Cor. 2.4.11 Ephes. 4 Col. 2.3 1 Cor. 12.13 Rom. 12.13 Joh. 13.15.  But they are all one Spirit with God, according the inward obedience of Faith, so far as they do not resist him, but overcome themselves; they kill the do of the flesh by the power of the Spirit of Christ, and so in the Faith they bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, and judge all things spiritually: In this manner the body of Christ should have been edified and built, so that always one member should feel the sufferings of his neighbours, or suffering fellow-members, by putting in the hearty compassion of the love of God, and should take care for them, and take pity on their necessities, with all goodness and well-doing, according to the Gospel of Christ, 
Rev 10  and not in the manner as hitherto hath been 〈◊〉 in the ●●●●●old Babel, and as is still practised more and more by the 〈◊〉, 
Jer. 7. 8. ●9 Ezek. ●. 14  who according to their Ceremonial Church-●●●●●●, 〈◊〉 our very steadfastly 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 with their hearts to their 〈…〉 rough garments Z●●h. ●● and hold stiffly to the 〈◊〉 of their misdeeds; wherewith they 〈◊〉 worry, and 〈◊〉 one another like dogs▪ 
4 Es●● 9.15 Esa. 10.11.17.55. 56. 68 7● Ma●. 10.11 〈…〉  Rev. ●1. and devour one another like wild beasts, and persecute one another with fire and sword, killing and ruining one another▪ ●●ther other regarding God in Heaven, nor Righteousness in their damned 〈◊〉, James 5. 〈◊〉 th●● those among them, who are as despised 〈◊〉 in the dark, Jo● 12. 〈◊〉 sheep scattered among wolves, cannot be known as to the outward 〈◊〉 and Ceremonies with which the hypocrites 
Isa. 1. 9 ●● Rom. 1. Isa. 〈…〉 Mat. 5. ●4 ●5. L●. ●. 19  and all the ungodly use to hid, colour and 〈◊〉 their 〈…〉 and ungodliness: but God, who seethe in secret, and 〈◊〉 the hearts and 〈◊〉, Rev. 2. he knoweth them, J●●. 11. 12. 17. 23. and they 〈◊〉 the light of their 〈◊〉 of Faith, their love and righteousness shine forth, as God hath bestowed his grace upon every one, Rom. 1●.  

5 Rom. 1 1 Joh. 3 4 Mat. 23. 24  But the world being so deeply drowned in wickedness, 1 Joh. 5. will only uphold itself, and its gli●●ering, vain and 〈◊〉 do in pomp; and therefore it will not acknowedg God in those 〈◊〉 are his, 〈…〉: but i● 〈◊〉 and persecuteth them, because they 〈◊〉 of the world, but expect another world or kingdom, To●. 2. 〈◊〉. 2, 3. 5. 
Heb. 10. 11. 12. Col. 1. 3  for an 〈◊〉 life and happiness▪ 〈◊〉 they must 〈◊〉 be engrafted through Christ, and 〈…〉 to themselves, 2 Cor. 5. but live to their Faith, H●●. ●. in Righteousness, which is pleasing to God, Rom. 1. 5. 10. 
Rom. 5. 6. 14 Gab. 3. 5. Psa. ●● Rev. 19 21  And this is the most 〈◊〉 Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Spouse and body of Christ, or the Congregation of God, out of which there is no 〈◊〉, Act. 4. to which he 〈◊〉 or calleth all from the beginning of the world, as to the marriage of the Lamb, or new 〈◊〉.  
And a● the humane body, except it be a two-headed Monster, cannot have the lively motion and sensibility of its members from a divers head; and as a 〈◊〉, modest ●ife cannot have the knowledge of another man, than her husband to whom she is married, wihtout committing adultery; So the true Catholic Christian Church, or Spouse of 
Col. ● John 10 Eph. 1. ●  Christ, can have no other visible, or invisible, or Ecclesiastical head, Church head, or Bridegroom, then only Christ, who is the only Pastor of his Flock, and Savoiur of his Body, which is the Congregation; and not as absent, but as present, giveth the fullness of his grace, 
Heb. 1.2.3.4 Eph. 3.4 Col. 1. Rev. 21 1 Cor. 3 Mat. 7.12 ●● 1 Cor. 5 Rev. 12.20.22.  Joh. 1.7.12.17. 2 Pet. 1. to all his members, both small and great, 1 Cor. 12. who make themselves partakers of it in the faith, whether they be Kings, Princes, Teachers or Hearers, who according to the Gospel of Christ, are rooted and built up in him, 1 Pet. 2. or planted in him as the branch of a vine, which is not dry and withered, john 15. but bringeth forth fruit: for every regenerate, or new man, who walketh in the power and spirit of faith, and light of life, john 3.8.12. and not being dead, Isai. 26.28, he is to do in his estate, condition, office, and calling, or employment, that which is acceptable and pleasing unto God, and beneficial and profitable to his neighbours, Mat. 7. 
1 Pet. 2 1 Cor. 3.12 Eph. 2 1 Cor. 3.6 2 Cor 6 Rom. 12. 1 Thes. 4.5 Isa. 42.48 1 Pet. 2 Mat. 21 Mark. 12  and this is the precious foundation, or comer stone, upon which himself hath built his congregation and all its members; of which Peter and Paul were not heads, but living stones; and hath made it to be a spiritual habitation and Temple, wherein Christ himself, and not Peter, or any other Minister, member, or servant, is the bead, but the Lord himself, who dwelleth in the house, and ruleth by his spirit; for he will not give his honour to any other: This precious comer-stone, the supposed spiritual or Clergy have reseated in their building, as the Pharisees and Scribes, or Scripture-learned, in former times did among the Jewish Nation, Psa. 118. and lay another sandy foundation, Leu. 6. 1 Cor. 3. Mat. 7. Acts 20.24. according to their own sense and meaning in their opinions, in a perverted manner out of themselves, 
Isa. 28 Epist. Judas. Jer. 5.7 Rev. 16 Gal. 5 1 Tim. 1.6 Dan. 8.11 Heb. 4. Psa. 10.57.52.75 Isa. 3.29.57 Heb. 11.  upon which every one built to himself a several Church of their own, with a pompious Crown or dress, that according to their thinking should continue in this world steadfastly to the end, wherein yet the Devil hath set up his dominion and rule in their Consciences; which building is turned into a Babel, and a house of consused verbal contentions and disputations, wherein they can no more understand one another, and now are come to their ruin and perdition: For there is still another time at hand, Dan. 8.11. in the world, wherein those that are ceased from the power, havoc, tyranny of the wicked, and especially those that are gone out from the decent of the false Prophets, and their murdering souls and bodies, shall be delivered, Ezek. 13.22.34. But those who according to the faith would come to God, and into his eternal Kingdom, 
Rev. 21 2 Cor. 6 Joh. 1.8.12 Isa. 42.60  or into the glory of the new Jerusalem, they must here be a Temple or habitation of God; and for their salvation-sake should walk in the light, and especially have respect to the glory of God, and the universal, temporal, and eternal welfare of mankind; and in these present distractions do their endeavour, 
Rom. 9 Isa. 10.28.59.61.62.63 2 Cor. 10. Psa. 48.97 Jer. 10.30 Dan. 7.  that the spoiling destruction may be stayed, and that the righteous may be delivered. But all Heathens, and Kings, which will not help, and serve, and administer for God, according to the inward obedience of Faith, that Zion may be built, they shall perish temporally and eternally, as members of the abominable and horrible beast; and shall be ruined and utterly destroyed, Isai. 60.  
Now if the Emperor chief, and all other eminent persons, do seriously and deeply enter into their hearts and consciences, and so rightly consider the testimony of God, in discovery of the knowledge of these present modern seducing do of Babel, and especially go out from the Idolatry and sorcery of the Babylonish abomination, under which he with his fellows have committed spiritual whoredom for a long while, and desist from those deadly damned purposes, these base, false, pernicious thoughts, yea devilish do, and cleanse himself from other works of darkness, for which the wrath of God is gone forth over all the world, and desire to grow sober minded; and then he and they may expect grace from God so far as they do so, without any crafty prevariation, fraud, deceit, or reservation, to which God hath a piercing watchful eye and circumspection, and will not be mocked or deceived in this business of the suppressing of the faithful ones.  
For a civil, or worldly Magistrate, who is ordained from God to rule and govern, should judge no otherwise but according to Righteousness, for the welfare of the subjects, and the universal, temporal and eternal welfare of mankind; and especially as this so long continued desolating great necessity and misery doth require, that the poor and miserable may be delivered from the power of the oppressors thereby: But not that the Elect of God should be yet further condemned, judged, and abused, to bring them to temporal and eternal perdition, as it hath been for a long time hitherto, from whence so many great plagues, lamentation and necessities have arisen in the Roman Empire, and Ruin been brought upon one Country after another. But if the Emperors and they should not regard these things, nor consider how God proceeded in former times against others his fellows, King Pharaoh, and the King of Assyria and Babylon; where his name was so blasphemed, and his people of Israel so ground, trodden underfoot, and vexed, who regarded not the mighty arm of the Lord, or the terrible deeds which God in former times, for that cause, showed upon his Enemies, neither would they return and regard these threaten and plagues, or take them to heart, and consider them: And if he also should slight those things which hitherto for his purpose against God he hath so much experience of, and felt them by a living knowledge of them, than it is to be feared, that God will not only make an end of him and them, but that worse things shall befall him and them, then in former times befell those to whom such deeds were not so known and testified to, as they have been to him; for God will not have his admonitions, warnings and threaten slightly passed over, though he be long suffering, and of great patience, for afterwards there will be no deliverance out of his hand.  
Therefore if the Emperor with his Reformation, or afflicting of consciences in all places and Counties, doth not leave it off and give it over, and will not let those Captives or prisoners go free, which are already under the Babylonian yoke and abomination, and let every one enjoy the liberty of his conscience, and doth not from the inward ground of his heart put away the devilish do and practices of the forcerers the false Prophets, which they entice him to, or else God will destroy all that hath remained and been hither to saved and preserved, and will proceed still further against them, and must be revenged on him and his fellows, and bring those things upon his own head, both in soul and body, which he will have cause to repent of here in this life, and in the other Eternal.  
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According to the Council of the Lord, 
Isaiah 8.30. Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 1.15. Psal. 89.119. Isa. 5.51.59. Wisdom 5. Dan. 7.12.  and according to the mystery of the hidden Wisdom of God, and his Eternal Divine Righteousness, according to which, for the deliverance of his Elect, he willbring his Enemies, the opposers to an end. 2 Thes. 1.2. Luke 17.18.21. I●el 83.  
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