TO THE PROTECTOR AND PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND.  
LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert, at the black Spread-Eagle, near the West end of Pauls, 1658.   

The Heads of the Contents of this Book.  

THe true ground of all just laws.  
For whom the Law was added, and what is transgression.  
What is the higher power to which every soul must be subject.  
True weight and measure discovered; justice and truth whence they spring.  
Considerations touching sellers of Ale, Wine, and Beer.  
Touching 

Beggars.  
Prisoners.  
gaolers.  
Thieves.  
Officers and their wages.  
Taxes.  
Swearing and other particulars.    
What was the state of the Apostles, and what was and is the apostasy, and who are in the apostasy, and what is the state to which out of it people must return.  
Who is Antichrist and the false prophets, and when they came, or whether in this age they be risen, and this be the last time.  
What and where Babylon is the mother of Harlots, and the seat where the Beast sits, and the great whore which all the world has wondered after,& committed whoredoms with, and the Kings, Inhabitants of the Earth committed fornications; and what are her names, heads, crowns, and horns, and the waters upon which she sits.  
The difference between the true and false Churches, Ministers, maintenance, and the false prophets found out, and the Sheeps clothing plucked off, and the wolf seen and discovered.  
Many of the doctrines and principles of the Ministers of England weighed, and found too light; Concerning the Church, baptism, Word, Light, Law, and Testimony, Gospel, original perfection, singing of Psalms, trying of spirits, speaking in the Church, false teachers, swearing,& many other particulars, showing also that neither they nor the Papists are ever like to convert the Jews.  
With some Cautions and Counsel to the Protector and Parliament, needful to be duly observed.    

TO THE PROTECTOR, And You His Council The Parliament.  

YOU who are in place to make Laws, see that they be agreeable and answerable to the just principle of God in every one, that is it that breaks the jaws of the wicked, then you will be eyes to the blind, and help them that cannot help themselves; then to you shall all the lofty bow, and before you shall all the haughty bend, as your Law does reach, and answer that of God in every one; For the Law was added because of transgression, and so the Law goes over the heads of all transgressors, and this is that which is called the Higher Power, higher then the transgressors, higher then the evil-doers power, higher then the unrighteous, higher then the unjust, which would usurp Authority; higher then all the Inventions of the heathen that be in transgression; for the Law was added because of transgression; that which is pure in man, that is just, holy, good, and righteous, and equal, being transgressed, then had not every man his right; So the Law being just,( which is added because of transgression) holy, equal, pure, and right, answering that of God in every man, which is transgressed, which when that being transgressed, and the Law( added because of transgression) cast behind the back; Truth fell in the streets, Equity could not enter, the helpless complained, and the jaws of the wicked are not broken; but wherever he can get in, he tears: Therefore the Law is perfect, just, holy and good, and it is to keep perfect, and it is to keep in the good, keep in the just, and keep in the holy, and takes hold upon the unjust, and upon the unrighteous, here is the higher power, and the Law added because of transgression. Moses that had the Law which went over the heads of all transgressors, and all transgression upon the earth, he saw before the Creation; he saw the Creation, he saw how all things were made good, he saw him that abode not in the Truth, he saw man before the Fall, in the Image of God; he saw before any transgression was, he saw before the Fall, and then the Fall, and then had the Law which went upon all transgressors; he saw the heathen that were in their Inventions, in the transgression. All Laws, Acts whatsoever they made were called inventions of the heathen, because they were set up in the nature that had transgressed the pure, and had not received them from God as Moses did. Now he witnessed the higher power, that saw the Image of God before the Fall that man was in, which if any of the Jews did transgress the Law( added because of transgression) the higher power went upon them, and answered the just principle of God, transgressed in them. Now the heathen being from that of God in them, they followed their inventions. When the children of Israel transgressed the Law of God, they came into their nature, and mingled among the heathen that knew not God, and the Law of God goes over the Jews, over the Gentiles, answers that of God in them all, and cuts down that which man doth invent, and the inventor both, therefore the Law was added because of transgression,& that is the higher power which goes over all transgressors, and who transgress go from that of God in them, and this Law was not made for the righteous, but for transgressors, who transgress that which is pure in them, then the pure Law of God takes hold upon them, and answers the pure principle of God in them that they have transgressed, so who are lead by the Spirit of God are not under the law it is a terror to evil doers, those that go from that of God in them, and a praise to them that do well; and this Law was not made for the righteous, but for the sinners, and it puts a difference, and for them that do well it is a praise. And here's the higher power, to which the soul must be subject, which God hath ordained, which is of God, which we must be subject too for conscience sake; every ordinance of man for the Lords sake, for the punishment of evil doers. Now the higher power goes over all evil doers, all transgressors, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, and that which invents a Law, or an Act which does oppress, whereby the just comes to suffer by a Law, as in the dayes of Daniel. It is made and invented by that which has transgressed the pure in his own particular, and that is it which compels the just to bow down in the general, and to suffer, where the just there comes to obey God rather then man, and that he has set up in his will, and compels them to suffer by a Law; but alway the children of light and the righteous, was one with the higher power, which went over the head of all transgressors, that fathomed and comprehended all the world; which higher power and the Law gives to see before any transgression was; which higher power and Law being over the heads of all transgressors upon the Earth, it answers the thing transgressed in every one, which Law is just and equal, which answers the the just, holy, and equal principle of God in every man upon earth, and here is the higher power a terror to the evil doer, where the dread of the Lord is which is not made for the righteous, but sinners, transgressors, and disobedient, to that of God in them, disobeying that of God in them, which is just, holy, and good; then they do evil, then they transgress, then they go aut from the higher power, then they go from the righteous principle, then the higher power takes hold upon them; then they go under it, and it takes hold upon them. Therefore take heed all ye Law-makers, how ye make laws, that ye may be kept in the fear of God, and to wait in his Council to receive his instruction, and directions, and Law from him, and not your own Inventions, for that will be tyrannical, and that you may with that of God, which you receive from God, stand in his counsel, come to reach to that of God in every one, under all your Dominions, then in that will the pure bless you, and be joyful and glad, and with meekness, and innocency, and truth, and love; and wisdom, and power, and authority, rule in your family; and all the Nations be as a Family. You being kept down in the fear, comes to receive the secret council, from all lightness and presumption; For that which answers that of God in every one, is the higher power, which when he has transgressed it, and this is that that's higher then the evil doer, higher then the transgressors, that which is righteous and good, that which answers that of God in every one; That which brings all Nations to be as a Family, the higher power governing that is righteous, holy, just, and good, answering the thing, the pure principle of God, in every one that is transgressed; This keeps down the evil doer, keeps down the disobedient, keeps down the transgressor, the sinner; for sinners, disobedient, evil doers, transgressors( mark) go all from that of God in them, and in that lies all the spiritual wickedness, power of darkness, which the higher power goes a top, destroys it, and cuts down. Now Christ is the end of the law for righteousness sake, who was made under the law, to every one that believes. For the Law is righteous, just, holy, and good, and perfect, answering the righteous principle, just, holy, and good in every one; which who does not just, holy, nor good, the righteous Law just, holy, and good, takes hold upon him, keeps him under, judges him down; The Law which is perfect, holy, just, and good, answers the perfect, just, holy, good, and righteous principle in every one: So the Law is righteous, and there is the higher power over all transgressors upon the earth, and Christ the righteousness of God, him by whom the world was made before it was made, is the end of this righteous Law to every one that does believe, for righteousness sake: So the Law, the higher power ( added because of transgression) it keeps down the destroyer; for disobedient, a destroyer, a sinner a destroyer, a transgressor a destroyer, an evil doer a destroyer, not a doer of righteousness: So the Law that is just and righteous, goes upon him; disobedient unreasonable, and sinners unreasonable, and transgressors unreasonable, and evil doers unreasonable, the Law is reasonable, just, and good; disobedient ungodly, and disobedient unjuust, and evil doers unjust, and evil doers unholy, and transgressors unholy, and transgressors unjust and not good; So the Law is just, holy, and good, goes upon the holy, unjust, ungodly; here is the higher power the terror to the evil doer, a praise to them that do well, not made for the righteous, but for the sinners, transgressors, disobedient, and evil doers Disobedient from that of God within, and doing evil, he goes from that of God within, and the transgressor he goes from that of God within, from the Spirit of God within, and does evil; he hates the light, goes from that of God in him; he hates the light so therein, that is all the inventions and wickedness acted, so upon that the higher power goes and takes hold, for there is all the unjust measures, all the unjust weights, all the unjust balances; when they disobey that of God within, the true measure is forsaken; when they transgress that of God within, the true weight is forsaken, gone from that of God within, and does the evil, the true balance is lost, is gone from, and out of that ground ariseth all the oppression upon earth, and tyranny, who first go from that of God in their own particulars, that being quenched there in their own particular, and disobeyed, and transgressed, then he does the evil and not the good; So there the Prince of the air comes in and rules in the children of disobedience, and there comes in the god of the world, that blinds the eye; when he hath transgressed, the Prince of the air gets in and rules. He proffers them the world& glory of it, he presents to them gifts and rewards, which blinds the eyes of the wise, the Eye of the wise put out; then disobedient to the pure, when the pure is transgressed, and the evil is done, he does the evil, and then the wisdom that is below gets up here, and man sets up himself in his own will, and rules in his own will there from that of God in him, does the evil, disobedient to that of God in him transgresses it, doth many things rashly, in his own will; which when he hath done, then after it may be that he hath disobeyed, and done his own will, checks him when it is too late, then for shane and fear he will not undo the thing that he hath done, though the power check him for doing of it; so he will rather yield and give up himself to his own will, and to the unrighteousness which hath lead him to all things, which after the righteous principle checks him for, and tells him he should not have done so; he checks the innocent, therefore that he should have obeied, and yielded too, and lived in, and that lead him to act, and then there wisdom is given and granted, by which all things were made and created, with which wisdom man must order, and use the creatures, and order the Creation to the glory of God, by which wisdom they were created, with which wisdom man must be ordered to the glory of God; and then in this, in acting things after he shall not be condemned for it, but shall have joy and peace with God. The fear of God is the beginning of this wisdom from above. The fear of God is to depart from sin and evil, and he that departs from sin and evil, comes out of disobedience, comes out of transgression, comes out of the sin, and out of the doing evil. Here's the wisdom from above, that's pure, and peaceable, and gentle, and meek, and easy to be entreated, with which wisdom man comes to use and order the Creation, by the wisdom by which they were created, with which wisdom he comes to answer that of God transgressed in every one for the wisdom thats below, this which is above is in the transgression, disobedience, such as do evil that goes from that of God in them, and sins, here is the earthly, sensual, devilish out of the light, and life of God, and out of the peace with God: So the devil shall be taken, and all transgressors, and disobedient evil doers, sinners, for they go under his power; transgressors, sinners, evil doers, disobedient under his power, that abode not in the truth, that went out of it: So transgressors goes out of it, the disobedient go out of it, sinners and evil doers go out of it; that which the Devil, sinners, transgressors, evil doers, disobedient went out of, into that I am come which fathoms them all, which tramples all under foot, and answers the just principle of God in every one which hath been transgressed, whereby life and glory comes to be known; so wait that you may come to distinguish between the precious and the vile, for to that, the Devil went out of, disobedient goes from, transgressors goes from; sinners, evil doers goes from, into that are the children of light, children of God, the heirs of God, heirs of life come, therefore wait for the wisdom of God, that you may put a difference between them whom the Law is made for, and them whom the Law is not made for; it is not made for the righteous, and such as come to the true belief in Christ, who is the end of the Law for righteousness sake, and the just is come to receive Christ Jesus, who does enlighten every one that comes into the world; and all disobedient sinners, transgressors, evil doers, and he that abides not in the truth, but is out of it, the truth, the light condemns to the fire, and will burn up, and neither leave root nor branch. Glory be to the Lord God for ever; the floor is to be purged, and the wheat to be gathered into the garner, and the chaff burnt with unquenchable fire, and nothing shall reign and rule, but life and power itself, and all things that are contrary shall be burnt up with the brightness of the Lord God, and nothing reign and rule, but the power of God itself.  
And again Friends, let none be Brewers in your Dominions and Nations,( I am moved of the Lord to lay it upon you) but such as are wholesome people, fearing God, and not destructive to the Creation of God, to the Creatures, for lodging Travellers or Passengers, or letting others have a little Beer who cannot themselves brew for their necessities: But as for all other Alehouses up and down the Nations, there are multitudes, that are not able to lodge Travellers, Passengers, for the nursing up of young people to looseness, folly, and vanity, this is not a sweet savour amongst them called Christians; but such Hosts as Paul speaks of, which are upon record for ages, that gives a good savour for the lodging of passengers: But as for all the rest their houses are onely for the destruction of the Creature, and breed up people only for destroyers of the Creation, who can drink most, and then doth the bad thoughts rise in them to steal, whereby to get money to serve their lusts, so stealing the creatures from other creatures, those creatures coming to be destroyed for want of the creatures, they selling the creatures, run to such places, spending their money in by-places and corners, consuming upon their lusts, destroying the creatures. Again here for their own ends will such let forth the creatures, Drink, or Ale, or Wine, so they can get money, whereby they may be enriched. Now by this means comes the earth to be corrupted, and people loathsome; Therefore this is the Word of the Lord to you all, and a command in the presence of the Lord God, let none brew but such who are savoury, that are come into the wisdom of God, by which the creatures of God were made and created, with which they must come to use and order them again to his glory, and are wholesome and fit to lodge Travellers; then you will feel a sweet savour amongst you. Such as have mastery and power over their houses, where loose people bad people, those that doth baldly dare not venture.  
And then again friends, you that be called Christians, take heed and see that there be no Beggars amongst you, going up and down begging, for want often brings them to steal; Some are full of plenty, destroying through superfluity; others being in poverty, which are ready to perish for want of the creatures, raise up thoughts in them to steal; which them that are rich; and have abundance in distributing in such like cases, might take away the occasion, and prevent temptation, or take them in into some employment, and this shows the nobility and Christians life: And the children of Israel before they transgressed, and lived in the Law of God, there were no beggars amongst them; Them that believed in Christ the righteousness of God, the end of the law for righteousness sake, they distributed to every one as they had need( mark) that had need. Now since the apostasy, men having had the Christians words, the Apostles, Christs, and the Prophets words; but being out of the life, they have been out of the measurable compassion. Therefore friends mind the life, mind the state of the Jews before transgression, no beggar amongst them. mind the state of the Christians before the apostasy; no lack amongst them, but every one had distributed to them as they had need. Here's a sweet savour, here's an example for you that are called Christians, Churches, and Ministers, that a savour of a Christians spirit may be amongst you, the savour of a Christians life, that to Nations about you, you may be a good savour being in the life.  
And friends, take heed of letting prisoners lie long in goals, of what sort soever; for lying long in Goals, a great company together, twenty or thirty together, they learn more wickedness of one another in a lazy and idle life; they bring more hurt to them in keeping them long in prisons and Goals, then when they went in, and they learn more wickedness one of another.  
And take heed of letting any gaolers that be Drunkards, Swearers, selfeish, keep prisoners, for they do them hurt too if they will follow drinking, game, sports; as they have their Shovel boards, their Bowls, their Cards, their Dice, many of them in their houses to play, and so fetc● up their prisoners for pleasures, and to drink till they be drunk, as often in many Goals hath been seen, which grieves the righteous, seeing that men are made worse by putting in hither. Therefore let none stay long in Prisons, nor let none be keepers of Prisons, but such as fear God, and hates covetousness, game and drunkenness, that they may be rather patterns and examples, and instructors to Prisoners; by good examples and instructions, they may do good of them while hecy be with them In this you will be a sweet savour, come to order your family aright.  
And take heed that none be put to death for cattle, or money; for those were restored fourfold, or seven fold, or to be sold for their theft.  
And friends, take heed of putting any in places that look for great gifts, great wages, for that will exalt the tyrannical power in him, and make him forget God, and lift him up in the flesh, whereby after such come to fall with shane. Therefore to that which keeps down and plain in great places, take heed; great wages and great places, exalts the high minded, and that is it which grieves the righteous, and honest hea●ted, For when the Judges judged for reward, and the Priests taught for hire, and the Prophets divined for money, this brought Jerusalem all on heaps, and the wise eye was blinded with gifts.  
And of laying great taxes upon people, take heed lest ye oppress the just, and lay heavier burdens upon them then they can bear, by which the just comes to groan under, but mind equality, measurablenesse, true weights, true balances, and equality in all things, man with man, that whereby you may govern in righteousness and in justice. For oppression, and heavy burdens, and heavy taxes from some, give to some the great wages, whereby others are oppressed; therefore wages being less, the taxes come less, then you all come to the feeling principle of God in you, by which you all feel and consider, that which is exalted with fullness, and ease the oppressed, and not feed that which is full and exalted; and the one with his fullness is exalted above his measure, and the other with his heavy tax is oppressed through the care. Therefore now you have ease, take heed all you that be in offices, and having fullness, of growing fat and forgetting God, through places and abundance of riches and great wages; therefore your wages less, your taxes less, you keep chased and low in the fear of God, and then there will be less danger. For such as are exalted by high places, or great gifts, the Lord God brings one plague or judgement or other upon them, or upon the Nation where they dwell; therefore keep down in the fear of God, that you may be ordered with wisdom, and come to order in the creation with it, to the glory of the Creator; Here you all feel the blessings of the Lord God of life amongst you, and with you,, and both the exactor and the exacted, the one his jaws will be broken, the other will be relieved, and helped, and that which helps is blessed, and the will of men must be crossed in the earthly, and that mountain broken down, as the ston riseth that is cut out of the mountain without hands; for abundance of judgements must come from the Lord God, and plagues and misery before men be seasoned, and be in the savoury of life, for that which did ever oppress first, went from that of God in them; for the first murderer, he went out of the truth, and destroyer. Therefore Esaus birth, Esaus stock, that looks for the fat of the earth, and bears the sword against Jacob, must be as the stubble, and a wilderness, and a place for Dragons: Therefore Isaak knew the second birth, which is the seeds called; and Jacob knew, that riseth and reigns over the high places of the Earth, that the elder you may come to witness to serve the younger; here is the election known.  
And friends, take heed of making any Laws and Acts against them that cannot swear, that abide in Christs doctrine, that are the royal Christians, and of the royal Priesthood, and in the everlasting Covenant, Christ Jesus, him by whom the world was made, who are brought to the yea and nay in all their communications. And Christ saith, Swear not at all. And the Apostle saith, My brethren, above all things swear not at all, lest ye fall into condemnation. So who obeys Christs doctrine, and the Apostles, be out of the oaths, and in yea and nay, in all communication: And if you will have any more, in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word is established. If you say the Prophet did swear, and Solomon did swear, and Jacob did swear, and David did swear, and men in strife did swear, and the oath ended the strife. I answer, who comes into Christ, are come into peace, yea and nay in their communications: This is my beloved son( saith God) hear ye him, who saith, swear not at all; To whom the Angels must bow, who is the end of the Prophets, and greater then Solomon, before Abraham was; and David called him Lord, the end of the first Priesthood, the end of the first Covenant, the end of Moses, who reigns over the house of Jacob and Joseph, who was glorified with the Father before the world began; who doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world, that all men through the light might believe; who saith, learn of me.  
And many are fined, and many are imprisoned, because they cannot swear, because they cannot transgress the commands of Christ, and Apostles doctrine, which never such thing was heard of upon the earth in all christendom, that Christians should put in Prison such as cannot swear, that obeys Christs dooctrine, and the Apostles, and are kept to yea and nay, in all their communication: And if they would have any more, they shall have two on three witnesses, that shall establish every word they speak; That such should be fined and imprisoned, and lie till death, as one did at Norwich, and many are detained in the Fleet at London, and other places. Was it ever so amongst the Apostles? that any should be fined and imprisoned till death, because they could not swear, and detained in prison for years; doth not this show that men from the Apostles doctrine are apostated.  
And friends, take heed of casting them into prison, or fining them that cannot pay to the mending of Papist houses, called the Steeple-house, which hath the cross on the end of it, or paying to a Clerk wages; Such as meet together in the fear of God, that cannot hold up those houses with Crosses in the end of them, and pictures in the windows, nor those Ministers that hold them up, nor cannot own the Clerks to give them wages; for the Prophets and Apostles had never any such, but they are come up since the dayes of the Apostles; and the houses with the cross on the end of them, in the night of the apostasy, and so they call them their Churches since the dayes of the Apostles, who saith the Church was in God 1 Thes. 1. Now if you say some of their crosses are thrown down; yea of some of them there is, but many of them they are still; but he that set up the cross set up the House, and so it cannot be repaired as a Church, or a Temple, or a place for worship which was ordained for Popery: Therefore that Priest-hood and people, that hold up that which they call the Church, or the Temple with a cross on the end of it; and if that Minister and people that uphold it are not able to maintain it, that declares the beggarlinesse of it. Now for the repairing of any poor mans house, which is his covering to keep him from rain, that is a dead of charity and savours. But for the Ministers and people that have their houses, and the Clerk, and is not able to maintain it, nor to maintain their Ministry, but they will sue and cast into prison such as be not of their Church, because they cannot put into their mouths, and cast them into prison, and there keep them till death; yea, for their bellies, not because of their worship, but because they will not put into their mouths; therefore what would these do, if they had a Lw to compel to their worship, that imprisons to death for their bellies, as witness Lancaster Goal, and many other Goals in the Nation, where prisoners lie, and have lain, because they cannot give them wages,& tithes, that they do no work for. Did the Gentiles repair the Heathens Temple after they were converted? or maintain their Priests? Did the Jews that were converted maintain the Jews Temple, and hold up Priests, and give them tithes after they were converted? Did not they witness against the Priest-hood, and Temple, and tithes, as it is in the Corinthians, and Hebrews, and Acts? Hath not tithes, Temples, Pulpits, Priests, these offerings? Easter reckonings, midsummer deuce, come up since the dayes of the Apostles, in this night of apostasy? and are these Temples, tithes, Priests to be measured with the Jews, which God commanded, or with the Gentiles which God never commanded? Did not Christ come to put an end to the Temple, and true Priest-hood, and their offerings, and their Covenant, saying, a greater then Solomon is here that built the Temple, so the Jews that had the many Priests, the Christians, the one everlasting Priest-hood; the Jews the many offerings, the Christians the one offering; the Christians the blood of Jesus, the Jews the blood of bulls and Goats; the Jews the first Covenant written in Tables of ston, the Christians the last Covenant written in their hearts. So these Temples, tithes, and Priests, which have come up since the days of the Apostles, was not the Pope& the Papists the author of them? and of these Houses, and Clerks, and Pulpits, and Glasses, their preaching by an hour? And did not the Apostle witness against the time, and preached the everlasting Covenant to Jews and Gentiles: So these that are come up since the days of the Apostles, in the night of apostasy, which should continue a time. Now who are come to be turned from this, and that which hath apostated since the dayes of the Apostles, these Temples, tithes, and Priests set up since the dayes of the apostasy; Ministers made by Schools and colleges, made by the will of man, having name their colleges and Schools by Saints names, and Christs name, and of Jesus, having name their houses by Pauls and Peters, or Maries, &c. Having set Crosses on the end of their Churches or Temples, framing them after the manner of the Temple, as they imagine, setting them East and West, having their Clerks in them, having their tithes, having their offerings, midsummer deuce, and Easter reckonings, all this stuff having come up since the dayes of the Apostles, in the apostasy, who are come to the truth, that which the Apostles were in, and from Popery they cannot hold up these houses, nor hold up these colleges, nor hold up these Ministers, made by mans will, nor tithes, nor their Temples, nor their Clerks, nor mind their Popish houses with Crosses in the end of them, and for that cause many have their goods spoiled, their cattle driven away; and what is this but like unto the Spiritual Court, for were not they presented in that, that could not maintain the Steeple-house, pay their tithes, Easter reckonings, midsummer deuce, and offerings. Now doth not truth comprehend all this? and did not the Apostles deny the true Temple, true Priest-hood, and true tithes? and are these to be measured by the true Priest-hood? Nay, we cannot measure them; So the true Ministry hath been lost, which hath been made by the will of God, which went out freely without a bag, since the Apostles, that this apostasy hath come up, so hath got up tithes and Priests, and colleges; here you may know who set up the colleges, there is Christs, and Jesus, and Trinities and Emanuels, and you may know who set up the great houses, for there is Peters and Pauls, and Maries, with Crosses on the end of them. Now how do you think we can maintain all these things; these Houses, ministry, colleges, without maintaining Popery; for these things are not renounced, and the old Court of Popery must be purged out. And nevertheless that friends be moved of the Lord to go into these houses called by the names of Saints, or go into these colleges called by the name of Christ and Jesus, to speak to them, as they are moved of the Lord God, they are haled out and sent to prison, have not the privilege of the place, and yet they must maintain the place, and cast into prison, and there lie till death, and are cast into prison by the Priests for their bellies, and lie till they are dead, and then carried out. Now this is not a good savour, but savours of popery; for never did the Prophets, never did the Apostles imprison any to death for their bellies, as witness Thomas show, cast one to prison, and there kept him till death in Lancaster goal, whom he did no work for, even for his belly. Now because we say such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies, who mind earthly things, and the love of money, they call it railing; which, such the Apostle saw coming before his decease, which since the apostasy have had their rule and dominion, and so to maintain a house and Ministry, and colleges, to make Ministers; and yet if any be moved of the Lord to speak to them at their colleges, great houses, they imprison them, and persecute them to death. Does not this show that they are such that makes war against them that keep the testimony of the Lord Jesus, the spirit of prophesy, and they themselves ravined from the Spirit, and are not all these of such that Christ said should come, Mat. 7 24. that should be inwardly ravening wolves( mark) wolves, yet the wolves should have the sheeps clothing, that is, the outside. Here Christ prophesied of them, and said, by their fruits you shall know them. And let us further to understand, whether men did gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles. And moreover said, that a good three cannot bring forth evil fruit, nor an evil three good fruit, therefore by their fruit you shall know them: And it was not every one that cried Lord, Lord, should enter into the kingdom of God, but they that did the will of God: So that which Christ said should come, Matth. 7.24. to his Disciples, and gives the marks by which they should know them, and bade them not go after them. Now before the Disciples decease, as you may red in 1 Joh. 2. and 1 Joh. 4. saith John, Little children I writ unto you, it is the last time,( mark) it is, then whereof you have heard say, that Antichrist should come, even now are there many Antichrists, whereby we do know it is the last time: And they went forth from us, that it might be manifest that they were not of us; for had they been of us, no doubt but they would have continued with us. But they went forth from us, that it might be manifest they were not of us. But you have an anointing which abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you; and as it doth teach you, so ye shall continue in the son of God, and the Father. So Christ bids them not go after them, and John keeps them to the anointing within them, agreeable to Christs words for Christ said they should come to his Disciples; John said they were come, and he said it was the last time, whereof ye have heard say that Antichrist should come, for Christ had  told them before, whereby we know it is the last time; for now, even now there are many Antichrists already in the world, and false prophets in 1 John 4. even now already in the world. So those that went forth from them, in the Revelations you may see how all the earth went after them and then came up the first beast out of the Sea, and the second beast out of the earth, and then came the earthly things to be established and worshipped, and these were them that inwardly ravened( mark) that inwardly ravened, that went forth from the Apostles, that all the world went after and worshipped, but whose names were written in the lambs book of life, before the foundation of the world was, and so that which inwardly ravened went forth from the Apostles, turned against them that kept to the Spirit the testimony of Jesus; here they made war against the Saints, and should overcome them; and so here the beast and false prophets came to reign, and then came up the Beast who is able to make war with them, and here is the beast and false prophets, and all his names, and marks, and heads, and crowns, and horns, pushing one against another. For how should they do otherwise but burst into names, when they went forth from the Apostles, inwardly ravened, yet had the sheeps clothing, the outside, the wolf hath been covered with the sheeps clothing, and now the clothing is taken off the wolf is seen; Was there so many names amongst the Apostles before the apostasy, the true Christians, no, they were of one mind, and heart, and soul; so all nations have drunk, saith John( mark) have drunk the cup of the wine of her fornication, Rev. 18. And the Kings of the earth, and inhabitants of the earth have committed fornication with her, mark, that which inwardly ravened, which went forth from the Apostles; whored, as the children of Israel when they transgressed the command of God, they played the harlot, so all Nations come to drink of the whores cup that inwardly ravened, had the sheeps clothing, which went forth from the Apostles,( mark) these went forth from something, these were not the heathen which had not the sheeps clothing, but such as inwardly ravened, and went forth from the Apostles, which all Nations came to drink their cup of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth. Fornication before they were married, before they came to the husband, and so all Nations have drunk this cup, and the Kings of the Earth, and worship, and go after her; they were more like to go after them that inwardly ravened and went forth from the Apostles, then go after the Apostles, the Kings of the Earth, and the world: So all Nations having drunk the whores cup, and the Inhabitants of the earth, and the Kings of the earth come to drink of her fornication. All the earth came to be corrupted with her fornications, all Nations having committed fornication with her, and the Kings of the Earth. And the waters which thou sawest where the whore sits are people( says he) and nations, and tongues,& languages, and multitudes( mark) the waters are peoples. Now the teachers of the world have  told us that this whore of Babylon is the Pope, and yet the false prophets are come but now, and now is the last time; now how hath these two stood together; and all nations have drunk of the cup of her fornications; and all nations worshipped the Beast, whose names are not written in the lambs book. And the water which thou sawest are multitudes, peoples, tongues and nations( mark) peoples. Now the Papists are a people, we say they are of her, of the whore, but peoples. Now the Papists are called a people, as the Jews were called a people, and nations, and tongues, and multitudes; what Nations, waters, where the whore sits, peoples waters, Tongues waters, Multitudes waters, no better established then waters. Nay, how should it be, when that which is inwardly ravened, went forth from the Apostles, all Nations came to drink of this cup; how should they be otherwise but like waters, wallow, wallow, when they were ravened from the spirit, and here is Babylon, Mystery, Babylon, and the mother of the harlots, where all Nations and people have been wallowing in these waters; and here hath been all the Names, running out of one name into another name, for that which whored and inwardly ravened, the world went after, so the sheeps clothing amongst them they have had, and the Lambs they worried. Inquisitions and Prisons, nay others imprisoned to death for their bellies, and the spirit when they ravened from it, how should they do otherwise but burst into heaps, and sects, and parties, and heads, and horns, and names, and all like waters, and so have wanted the unity of the Spirit, which gave forth the Scriptures, in which is the unity, which is the bond of peace. Now that the whore that ravened, and went forth from the Apostles, should fit upon Nations, upon Peoples, upon Multitudes, upon Tongues, and all Nations, and Kings, and the Inhabitants of the earth should drink her cup, and commit fornication with her, was not this like to defile the earth, to corrupt the earth? So all these names, horns, and crowns since the days of the Apostles are found in her, and amongst her and them the beast and false prophet, she sit upon Tongues, the waters are Tongues, so sits upon them which calls the Tongues, your Original here, upon you the whore sits, upon your waters; what Tongues waters, Nations waters, Peoples waters, and Multitudes waters, and all Nations have drunk the cup, and yet they would tell us they come b●t now.  
Again, the be●st and false prophet should be taken, which made war against the Saints, and overcame them. Babylon came in remembrance of God, and fall; the judgement of the great whore came and burnt, and double given to her, as she had given to others; The Devil taken, the old deceiver, and with him the false prophets, and the beast, and cast alive into the lake of fire, and the great whore that hath drunk the blood of the P ophets, drunk the blood of the Saints, drunk the blood of the Martyrs, for these have been all wrestlers against flesh and blood, and slaying the creatures, which we wrestle not against flesh and blood, before the apostasy, said the Apostles, so these that wrestled against flesh and blood since the Apostles, slaying the Saints, and the Martyrs, and the Prophets, the Saints and Lamb should overcome, over the beast, over the old deceiver, the beast, and false prophets, over his names, over his horns, over his crowns, which all that dwell upon the earth hath worshipped, over the mother of harlots, over the great whore which hath corrupted the earth, which hath made war against the Saints and overcome them: The woman fled into the wilderness, and the manchild caught up unto God, and all nations having drunk of the cup of the wine of her fornication, and all that dwell upon the earth worshipped the beast and false prophets; the man-child brought forth which should rule the nations with a rod of iron; for they have been waters, and drunk the whores cup; and everlasting Gospel shall be preached to them that dwell upon the earth, the Saints and the Lamb shall have the victory. rejoice ye holy Prophets over her, over that which Christ said should come, John saw was come, and all nations went after, and drunk the whores cup of fornication: So John doth not say it is the last time, when that all that dwelled upon the earth went after the Beast, and worshipped, and drunk the cup, he did not say then it was the last time; but when many Antichrists, many false prophets were already in the world, then it was the last time. Therefore from that which Christ said should come, John saw was come, which all Nations went after, and drunk the cup of, is people now coming. This is to the present age, to that which they all ravened from, is people come, and coming, whereby the Christ is rising amongst people, who comes to drink of the water of life freely; and the Tabernacle of God comes to be witnessed amongst men, and the heavenly Jerusalem comes to be witnessed; So that which Christ said should come, John saw was come, which went forth from them, which all people that dwelled upon the earth went after, and should worship, and all Nations drink the cup of fornication. These have been them that set up worships, and compelled others to worship; that set up Teachers, and compelled others to hear them, and set up maintenance, and compelled others to give it them; and set up tithes, and Priests, and Temples, and colleges to make Ministers by, and Clerks and bells to gather them together; for the Apostles denied the true Temple, and true Priests, and true tithes: and so they that set up another Temple, Priests, tithes, went out from them, and another Pulpit are them that went forth from the Apostles; and all this prisoning to death for tithes for pretended Ministers made, and hath these Popish houses are set up since the dayes of the Apostles, for they were made by the will of God; so with the power of the Lord God must all this be overthrown, root and branch, head and tail, and the power of the Lord God is gone over, and that is a true word, worshipping the Beast, when they went forth from the Apostles, and all the earth went after them; for they were not like to worship in the Spirit, and it's a true word, the whores cup which went out from the Apostles, which all Nations came to drink of, and so all nations hath been waters, Tongues waters, Peoples waters, Multitudes waters. Now must not vyals, and plagues, and thunders, and earthquakes, and shakings come before the Mistry to be revealed upon the Beast, and false prophet, and mother of Harlots; therefore the judgement of the great whore is come, and God will be avenged of her; and so it is not a strange thing, that which Christ said should come, and John saw was come, that all nations should drink the cup, which inwardly ravened, which went forth from the Apostles, that Nations should be standing against the light within, and word within and anointing within, and Christ within, and Spirit within; them that has inwardly ravened, went forth from the Apostles; raveners that whored from the Apostles, tell them of the light within, the anointing within, the Spirit within, Christ within, this is a blasphemy with them; nay they made war against them which kept the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of the prophesy( mark) they say prophesy is ceased, and false prophets are come but now, who made war against them that had the spirit of prophesy, that kept the testimony of Jesus. Was it the beast and false prophet, they say revelation is ceased. Now if they had said the fear of God had been ceased; for where the fear of God is, the secrets of the Lord revealed: And rejoice ye holy Prophets over her, the Saints and the Lamb shall get the victory, sing ye Saints Hallelujahs, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, and his Tabernacle was with man, and the everlasting Gospel shall be preached to them that dwell upon the earth; and with a rod of Iron shall nations be ruled. So fear God and worship him, and not the Beast, for that which inwardly ravened and went forth from the Apostles, such are they who worship the Beast, and who worship that worship the beast: So who comes to fear God and worship him, comes to that which they ravened from, so from all these Temples, tithes, Priests, from all the Jews Temples, tithes, Priests; from all the Gentiles Temples, tithes, Priests, and all those set up since the days of the Apostles. Is God bringing his people into the life of the Prophet●, of Christ and the Apostles, and the seed is risen, which gives to see before Jews Temples, Priests, and tithes were, which were but the figure,& over all these Temples, tithes, Priests, that inwardly ravine from the Spirit, which have had the sheeps clothing, the out-side; but the wolf hath been under, the devourer, and here hath been all Priests worships upon the earth, maintenance teachers. So from all these since the days of the Apostles, is God bringing his people, and sees them to be set up in the same nature, as the heathens were in, in the transgression, and to that which the heathens transgressed, and to that which them that went from the Apostles went from, is God bringing his people, and to that which the Jews Temple, tithes, Priests figured forth, to Christ Jesus the substance, him by whom the world was made, are people come and coming; which gives to see before the Jews tithes, Priests, the Gentiles tithes, Priests, Temples, and these tithes, Temples and Priests set up since the days of the Apostles, and the seed of God overthrows them all,& gives to see to the beginning, before the Jews was, before the world was, before the Gntiles was, or these set up since the d●yes of the apostasy, the seed of God overthrows, and brings to the beginning to the promise of God, over all that which Christ said should come, John saw was come, which a l the world went after, over that the Saints and the Lamb have victory; glory to the Lord for ever, the Saints and the Lamb have victory over all. rejoice ye holy Prophets, for to that which they went from, is the Saints come.  
Now are the Priests do you think ever like to convert the Jews, that have Temples, Pulpits, Priests made by colleges, tithes given unto them by man? Do you think that these are ever like to convert the Jews? What, we must forsake one Temple which God hath commanded to be made, and come to your Temple with a cross at the end of it, set up of your own invention which God never commanded? What, we must forsake our tithes which God hath commanded, who have a store-house to put our tithes in,& Priests to pay their tithes, as to take their tithes, and all the strangers and fatherless to be filled within our gates, that there might be no beggar in Israel; and we must come to your tithes invented and set up by man, and have no store house; and your country full of beggars and widows, and strangers, and fatherless are not satisfied. What, we must forsake our Priests made by Gods Law, and come to your Priests made by Schools, colleges, and by men, and serve seven years at a time at their Schools and colleges, do you think ever to convert the Jews? Nay, the Jews see that you are apostatised from the Apostles, and forsaken their principles; for say they the Apostles and Christians, and many of the Jews which followed the Apostles, they denied our Temple which God commanded, and denied our Priests and tithes which God commanded, whose lips were to preserve the peoples knowledge and witnessed the everlasting Priest-hood, the treasure of wisdom and knowledge; and said the light that shined in their hearts should give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God; so you have forsaken their principles. For the Apostles did not set up another Temple, which denied the Jews, and another Tenths, and another Priest-hood that took tithes; but this is come up since the days of the Apostles. So for the Jews to forsake their tithes which God commanded, to come to your tithes which God never commanded; and to forsake their Temple, to come to your Temple, which hath a cross on the end of it. And to forsake their Priest-hood made by Gods Law, which had a commandment according to Gods Law to take tithes of the people; and they had a store-house where all the widows, and strangers, and fatherless were filled And so they must forsake their tithes, store-house, and Priests, and come to your tithes which God never commanded, who have no store-house, and your Priests made by your colleges, and served seven years apprenticeship to it, and made by the will of man, which have their tithes, and casting into prison such as will not pay them, that be not of their Church, till death; and suing and haling them up and down Courts. This was never the Law among the Jews to cast into prison until death; this was never among the Jews for tithes.  
Now if they be like to convert Jews, they must come into the Apostles doctrine, who denied Pulpits, tithes, Temples, Priests of the Jews and Gentiles, and witnessed the substance Christ Jesus, the everlasting Priest-hood, Covenant, and the one offering. Now you are gone from the Apostles principles, and got up another Priest-hood which takes tithes, and hath no store-house neither for widows, strangers, or fatherless: So you are broken into Sects, and heaps, and names. The Apostles and Saints were of one heart, and mind, and spirit.  
Again the Apostle said, we wrestle not against flesh& blood, who preached the everlasting Covenant to Jews and Gentiles, a new Covenant to the Jews who had the old; a Covenant, a light to the Gentiles, salvation to the ends of the earth, among all the sons of Adam driven from God; preached Christ Jesus the Covenant of light, the second Adam, the power of God, the righteousness of God, the wisdom, the truth, the life, the way to the Father. For the first Adam being driven from the Father, Christ the second Adam the way to the Father, which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world, that all men through him might believe, and that they might know what to believe in the light; and he that believeth in the light hath the witness in himself.  
Now they did not wrestle against flesh, and blood, and creatures; but they held forth the everlasting Covenant, Christ Jesus the second Adam, with God and man, preached him to all the sons of Adam on the earth, and was to go into all nations, not to strike, and wrestle against flesh and blood, and creatures, but they struck at the power, and rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickednesses in high places; that they wrestled against that captivated, that kept the creature in bondage, and struck at that, whereby creatures might come into the liberty of the sons of God, and to believe in the covenant of God, the covenant of light, by wh ch they had peace with God: and struck at the enmity wh ch was among the creatures, and so wrestled not against flesh and blood, nor creatures, whereby many sons and daughters come to glory. And the Apostles before their decease, that struck at principalities& powers, and rulers of darkness, and the spiritual wickednesses in the high places, whose weapons were spiritual, and not carnal, said before their decease to Timothy and Titus, speaking of Ministers and Bishops, First they must be proved and tried before they must minister; he said they must not be covetous, they must not be given to wine, they must not be strikers( mark) Striker, nor covetous, nor given to filthy lucre. Now since the days of the Apostles, in the apostasy, is not strikers got abroad, and covetous, wrestling against flesh and blood? Such as cry knock them down, knock them down, take them away, to Stocks with them; If their heads were chopped off, if they were hanged, to prison with them, house of Correction, have them before the Justice, whip them; are not all these wrestlers against flesh and blood, who would have creatures hurt? So instead of striking at the power which captivates t●e creature,( and to bring the creature into the liberty of the sons of God) they are wrestling, and striking, and wrestling with flesh and blood. These are all apostatised from the Apostles like mad men, and never are like to convert people. For who ever have but red the Apostles Epistle, and the four Books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the Revelations, see that these works and fruits be quiter contrary to the manner and practise of Christ& his Apostles, where is loving enemies, where is overcoming evil with good? While so many have dyed in Goals, and suffered in Goals as york, Norwich, Colchester, Durham, Lancaster, Bristol, Exeter, by this priesthood, since the dayes of the Apostles; yea, for speaking to them, and many lie in Goals, been cast into prison because they cannot pay them tithes. Are not these covetous? are not these given to filthy lucre? Did not the Apostle see such as were covetous should make merchandise of the people before the Apostles decease? Did not judas, and Peter see such should make merchandise of the people, which went in Cains and Cores way; Cains way to envy, a murderer, and have not many suffered death in prison by these Priests in their generation? and many lies in prison because they cannot give them means, and give them tithes; yea, till death in prison? Now are not all these wrestlers agianst flesh and blood, in stead of striking against the enmity( which is among all people and the creatures) and wrestling against that power, and spiritual wickednesses, and to bring the creatures into the liberty of the sons of God, out of bondage, striking and imprisoning the creatures, yea for speaking to them, and for their bellies. Is this like unto the Apostles work? Doth not this show apostasy from them?  
Therefore take heed all ye men in authority, how you tolerate wrestlers against flesh, and blood( to be Ministers of Christ) and imprison men to death, because they will not give them maintenance. How far are these off of the Apostles, which would not use their power to eat, to keep the Gosp l without charge, though he had power. Oh! alack consider what hath ruled and reigned since those dayes. For the Ministers of the Gospel, they preached Christ the everlasting Covenant of God, to bring people into Covenant with God. They did not go to wrestle with creatures, or flesh and blood, but the power which captivated creatures, and causeth the enmity one with another, and so bringeth them into the liberty of the sons of God from under the power that hath captivated them. These are the preachers of the Gospel, which is the power of God, which strikes at the powers of wickedness; that which judas& Peter saw coming in, which went in Cains, Cora's and Balaams way. Separate themselves, sensual, and had not the Spirit, these went from the Apostles, which spoken the high words in hypocrisy, admired mens persons because of advantage, agreeable to them that Christ said should come, Matth. 7.24. who should be inwardly ravening wolves, having the sheeps clothing, as John saw was come, 1 John 2.4. as went forth from them, which were not of them, which all the world wondered after them, as in the Revelations, which separated themselves, had not the Spirit. Now these came to teach, and speak the high words in hypocrisy, having mens persons in admiration because of advantage. See the Scriptures people have had, but the Spirit that gave them forth have been wanting( and their Teachers have been in Cora's, and Cains, and Balaams way) in which is the unity, which is the bond of peace. So people having had the Prophets words, Christs words, and the Apostles words, and wanting the Spirit that gave them forth, which is the bond of peace, in which is the unity. They would destroy one another about what the Prophets said, and did, and Christ said, and did, and the Apostles said, and did.  
Now if you say we take away the Ministers maintenance, and the next time we will pluck down the Gospel and the Ministers both of Christ. I say nay, the Gospel it is the power of God, and that cannot be plucked down, for all things are upheld by his word, and power. The Ministers maintenance we pluck not down neither, but establish: and the Apostle doth say, Have not we power to eat? power to drink? But if ye should question the Apostles, who gave them their power to eat, and power to drink, seeing the Apostle denies the Temple, and the Sacrifice, and the holy things about the Temple, and the Priest-hood that took tithes, and the Store-house both; and said, the Priest-hood was changed, and the Law was changed, and the command disannulled that gave them tithes, and tithes which was paid to the similtude Melchisedech before the Law: The son of God is come, the end of all similitudes and likenesses, and yet the Apostles have power to eat and to drink; but he did not say that he had power to take tithes, great sums of money, stipends, Augmentations, Glebe lands.  
Now Christ when he sent forth his Disciples, the second Priest-hood, he bid them take no bag, nor silver in their purses; Freely they had received, freely give, and as they went preached the kingdom of God; and into what country or City they came into, inquire who was worthy, and there go, and there abide; and what they set before them, to eat, for the work-man is worthy of his meate. And those came back again to Christ, and he asked them if they wanted any thing, and they said nay. They came back again with joy; and he bid them not rejoice that the Devils were subject to them only, but that their names were written in the book of life. Now saith the Apostle, have not I power to eat? have not I power to drink? But he doth not say, have not I power to take tithes? have not I power to take Augmentations, Glebe-lands, Stipends, and great sums of money? Have not I power to eat and to drink? And Christ said to them which he sent forth, he gave them power to eat; for tithes were established in the first Priest-hood, which had the tithes. And they that preached the Gospel, the power of God opened their hearts, and made them come, and lay all at the Apostles feet.  
Now you may see, that the Ministers now in our age is in another doctrine, then the Apostles were in; for how many of their hearers have their preaching made to lay their goods at their feet: Nay, but they are fain to cast into prison for tithes, for maintenance, for lucre, for their bellies, yea till death; and they that Christ sent forth to inquire who was worthy; and what Town they come into, to quere who was worthy, if they set meat before them to eat it; but was not to come to a Town and to quere how much tithes, Augmentations, Stipends, Glebe-lands belongs to a Minister, and call the Town together, and agree with the Town for their lives,( as these doth) but to quere who was worthy, and what was set before them, to eat.  
Now if they did not set before them, and receive their doctrine, they were to pass away, not to call the Magistrates together, and to cast them into prison, because they would not give them maintenance. All may see what a habit these Ministers have got on, and how different from the Apostles and the Disciples, and how they are apostatised.  
Now if you say, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. I say nay; that ox that gets the wheat out of the chaff, out of the straw, not to muzzle his mouth: But saith the same Apostle, evil beasts, that minds earthly things, and teacheth for filthy lucre; who serves not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies their mouths must be st●pt: Which while they covet after money, they err from the faith, and pierce themselves through with many hurtful lusts, but the man of God is to fly these things. But follow faith and charity, not coveting.  
Now since the dayes of the Apostles( such as are gone after covetousness, erred from the faith, pierced through with hurt●ul lusts) the unity hath been lost; for the unity is in the faith, that which gives victory over the world in which God is pleased Now cries these, while men be upon the Earth, they must not have victory; there is a body of sin while he is on the earth: So not the victory, and not in the unity, the faith having been erred from, and reprobated from. So t●e unity hath been lost from the people, which hath had the victory, for the unity is in the faith, and faith is that which gives victory over the world, by which men please God, and have unity one with another.  
Now if you do say, he that plants a vineyard may eat of the fruit of it? and he that keeps a flock may eat? I say then, But let them see that they have planted a vineyard, and have a flock that will give them milk, and fruit to eat on, and let them not trouble the Magistrate with Petitions, which are to keep peace in a Nation, with petitions for maintenance for them; but see that they have gotten a vineyard, that it be a vineyard, and that it is a flock, and lie not like a wilderness.  
And they that sow spirituals should reap carnals, and they that preach the Gospel, should live of the Gospel. But how is it that ye are casting them out that be not of your vineyard and flock into prison, and suing them up and down Courts, and troubling the Magistrates, and troubling people, and casting into prison till death, because they cannot give you tithes, and maintenance; doth your fruits appear like planters of vineyards, gatherers of flocks, plowers in hope, threshers in hope.  
The Ministers of the Gospel never covet after earthly things, to trouble Magistrates, and make them as their Executioners upon others, because they would not put into their mouths, and give them maintenance, because they spoken to them. And the Lord hath opened some of the understandings of the Magistrates, that will not be your Executioners, but there is a mind raising up in some of them, that will say, W●uld to God all the Lords people were Prophets. And if ye have been seven years a● Schools, and Coll●dges, and have the Origi●al your learning: and if a company of plain simplo men, husband men, or yeoman men, you are not able to encounter withal, it is time for you to lay aside your Ministry, and your Doctrine, and Schools, and colleges; if ye be not able to resist their spirit, but ye must be fain to prison them, to stock them, and whip them, because they speak to you, and never lift up a hand to you, but bid you repent, and fear God, and will not give you tithes; this is not like unto the Apostles, who saith, quench not the spirit in the Prophets, nor limit the holy on: And try all things, and hold fast that which is good; and sons and daughters shall prophesy.  
Now though the Apostle said, Have not I power to eat,& power to drink? Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. He that planted a Vineyard should eat of the fruit of it; he that keepeth a Flock should eat of the milk; he that soweth spirituals, should reap carnals; they that preach the Gospel, live of the Gospel. Saith he, I have not spoken this, or written this, that these things should be so done to me, though I thus speak; for I have not used my power, nor have used any of these things; for it were better for me to die, then to make my glorying void that he might keep the Gospel without charge. How have you been the Apostles successors to keep the Gospel without charge, and to use none of these things; when ye are suing men for tithes, prisoning men for tithes, haling up and down the Nation, and many lye in prison till death. Now red the 1 Cor. 9. whether all your glorying is not voided: and ye cannot say ye have kept the Gospel without charge, when ye cast so many into prison, yea till death, and so many hundreds up in Courts, and so many have their goods driven away, and cattle driven away, and goods strained, and triple damages, yea and of some double and triple, which to all sober serious people is a bad savour, and a grief.  
So this hath had a time since the days of the Apostles( in the apostasy) the true Ministry hath been lost, and such as have had the sheeps clothing, the ravening wolves have ruled and reigned, whose fruits have been briars, thorns, and thistles, and the world hath laid like a wilderness; and their Teachers fruits have been like thorns, and thistles, and they corrupt trees, and their Ministry would not maintain them, but they were fain to get it by compulsion, by prisons, writs, and Petitions. This was never like the Prophets, nor the Apostles, but apostatised from them.  
Now if any man come to our houses, and have found us worthy; and minister unto us spiritual things, we should set before him of our carnal. But if he come to our houses, and quere for Stipends, tithes, Augmentations, Glebe lands, Easter reckonings, midsummer deuce, and offerings, we say they serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies. And they are not like the Apostle, that kept the Gospel without charge. Nor like unto Christs Ministers, that he bid them give freely. Nor like unto the Prophets, that said, come without money, without a price. Nor like unto the Apostle, who said, the gift of God was not to be bought and sold for money. Such we see differs from the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles, therefore we deny them, and see they are evil beasts, and serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies, that mind earthly things, that teacheth for filthy lucre, and the love of money, and covet after it, which they ought not, and disapproved by the Apostles doctrine in 1 Tim. 3.  
Now as concerning of Vagabonds, it hath been said, if a man or a woman have gone out into the next country, he hath been a Vagabond, he hath been called so. Now upon this account all the Apostles might have been called Vagabonds; for they was to go into all nations to preach the Gospel, and they did declare they had no certain dwelling place. And the son of man had no where to lay his head. And Abraham, of whom Christ came according to the flesh, had not a foot of ground, no not whereon to set his foot. And the Prophets that prophesied of Christ, passed up and down in many places to Nations; yet these were not Vagabonds, but all had habitations in God.  
Now Cain was a vagabond, yet he built a City, and called the City after his son Enoch's name; yet he was a vagabond, who built a City, for he was in envy and wrath. So he is a vagabond that is in envy and wrath, whose countenance fals, though he may have a great habitation in the earth; yet having not a habitation in God, is a vagabond. And having not a habitation in the earth, having not a foot of ground, having a habitation in God, is no vagabond. Having no certain dwelling place, nor having no where to lay his head, is no vagabond, having an habitation in God.  
Now concerning the Ministers principles. They have  told us the Steeple-house was the Church, and the Scripture tells us the Church is in God: So apostates from the Apostles, they  told us that sprinkling Infants was the baptism; that when Circumcision went out, then came sprinkling Infants( their baptism) ●n. The Apostle saith, which brought the people off of the outward Circumcision, which men were circumcised, he brings them to the inward circumcision( off of the outward) with the Spirit made without hands, in putting off of the body of sin, so both men and women witness the Spirit putting off the body of sin, which circumciseth, witness the Spirit wherein is the unity; and saith, the promise was with Abraham before he was circumcised, and that promise was with the Seed. And so doth not tell them, that when the outward circumcision was ceased, sprinkling Infants came in; but he brought them from the outward Circumcision, to the inward which was of the Spirit. So we see now, that both male and female must be circumcised with the Spirit of God, which putteth off the body of sin, and the promise of God is to the seed in the male, and female.  
And they  told us that the houses set up by the Papists with a cross at the end of it, was the Temple, because it was set East and West, it was the Temple, and Church: And the Apostles which witness the substance, were haled out of the Temple, and Stephen who was stoned to death for denying the Temple, and witnessed the substance, and saith, their bodies were the temples of the holy Ghost. So we do see those things set up in the apostasy, since the dayes of the Apostles.  
And they  told us that the Letter was the Light; and the Apostle saith, The letter kills, and the light shines in the heart. And Christ saith, I am the light. And they  told us the Letter was the Word; and the Apostles, the Ministers of the Word tells us in the Scriptures, that the Word is God, and Christs name is called the word of God; and the Scriptures is a declaration, Luke 1. They that were Ministers of the Word took in hand to set forth in order a Declaration, and in the Acts it is called a Treatise, Acts 1. And Christ saith, my words. And Moses saith, God spake all these words, Exod. 20. And John in the Revelations saith, If any take away from these words of this book, &c. So he calleth them words: and Christ came to fulfil the words, whose name is called the Word of God, him by whom the world was made. In the beginng was the word, who fulfils the words. So here is the Word that spoken all these words, it is the Word of God and Christs name is called the Word of God; and he came to fulfil the Word. So the Scripture of truth was given forth to be believed, to be fulfilled, to be practised, to be red; and the thing to come to be enjoyed that it speaks of, that is Christ, that Abraham saw, Prophets wrote of, Moses saw, the Apostles preached, and shewed the fulfilling of Christ, who is called the Word of God, who came to fulfil him by whom the world was made, whose name was called the Word of God, who was in the beginning before the words were written forth. So that is the Word of God by which the Heavens were made, and all things are upheld by the word and power. And the Word of God is in your hearts, and that is the word which divides asunder the precious from the vile, precious thoughts from bad thoughts, precious affections from vile affections, precious desires from bad desires, precious words from bad words, savoury words from corrupt words, and this is the word like unto the hammer, and fire, and a sword that hammers down the vile, that puts a difference, and hammers it down, that reconciles to the Father, that sanctifies by the Word, for the Word is truth, and Christ is truth.  
The Papists  told us that was the cross that stands upon the Steeple-house end, the Apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1. the cross of Christ it is the power of God, which we do believe, and feel, and know, and deny their Crosses, and the founder of them. Though the world and professors tell us, what hurt do they to stand in the high ways, or to stand on the Steeple-house end, or their Church, we see they are set up since the dayes of the Apostles, in the apostasy, by them that have lost the cross, which is the power of God, both Ministry and Church tithes, Pulpits, Temples, and Crosses, which is all denied by the power of God, which is the cross of Christ, and that brings us to the everlasting Priest-hood and the Temple of God.  
They  told us, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were the Gospel; the Apostle saith, many have the form of godliness, but deny the power thereof; the Devils may bring Scripture: but the Apostle saith, I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes. The Gospel is the power of God preached to Abraham before the four Books were written, wh ch was given forth from the power, which many may have, the four Books, the form of godliness, but deny the power, deny the Gospel; For the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes, Rom 1.16. It is the power of God, and the Gospel was preached to Abraham, and them that inwardly raven, which Christ said should come, and John saw was come then, in the Revelations, and saw the world went after them, they had the sheeps clothing, they had the out-side that covered the wolf, that made war against the Saints which should overcome; And they that had the form of godliness, but not the power, were to be turned from. So the beast and the false prophet hath been taken, the mother of Harlots brought down, Babylon fallen, the Saints and the Lamb got victory, the everlasting Gospel came to be preached to them that dwell upon the earth, which is the power of God. For they that ravened went from the Apostles, which the world went after, and worship the Beast, and all drink the whores cup, though they had the sheeps clothing, they went from the power, so from the Gospel; so the everlasting Gospel is now preached to them that dwell on the earth.  
And they  told us that the Hebrew, Greek, and latin was the Original, and they them the orthodox men to open the Scripture to us. And Moses saith, all the earth was of one Language before Babel: and Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord which came out of Hams stock, his kingdom was the beginning of the building of Babel, whom God did confounded the many Languages, Gen. 11. And when Christ was come that Moses prophesied of, they crucified him, and when they had crucified him, they wrote a superscription, and set it over him in letters of Greek, and latin, and Hebrew. Now here stands the Orthodox mens original, which hath been so long at their Schools, over Christ, over the life, over truth. And Pilate could not open the Scriptures, who had Greek, latin, and Hebrew, which they have so long been learning at Schools, the worlds Original, but crucified him, though he had the worlds Original. Neither can they open the Scriptures with that Original, for all the people are as heaps about words of the Scripture, and they themselves are haling, and casting into prisons about meanings of Scripture, and tithes, so are not in that which opens the Scriptures,& unites people together. And John saith in Rev. 17. that they must be redeemed out of Languages,& the whore sits upon them: So here is the path that the Orthodox men may walk in, betwixt Babel, and Babylon; and see their many Languages a-top of Christ, a-top of the life if they learn 20 years: when they did begin to build Babel, they went from the life; God confounded them in their many Languages, they went into their imaginations. And they that did build Babylon, they ravened from the spirit, and went from the Apostles, and so into confusion of Tongues and Languages, upon whom the whore sits, Revel. 17. which have been among them called Christians, all the beasts names, and horns, and crowns; and Babylon is among them which are confounded, the many languages as at first. So that they that begun to build Babel, they went from the life; and they that begun to build Babylon, went from the spirit into the many Languages, which are the Languages which is to be redeemed from; and they that set up the many languages over Christ, they was from the life, they was from the spirit.  
Now the life is risen which had the many languages set over it, is risen, is risen over the many Languages, over the Orthodox men, which have the Original bread up at Schools, which is set a-top of CHRIST the life is risen over them. Christ is risen that gives to see before Babel was, or Babylon either, or Pilate either, who set the many Languages a-top of him, which stains their pride, defaces their beauty, mars their glory that they have in their Tongues; for they have a pride in their Original, a pride in their Tongues, in their Naturals. So if men learn 30 years, 10 years, 7 years. at schools, and is a perfect Orthodox man, hath the Original, he must open the Scripture, he hath Hebrew, Greek, and latin. Now Babel is the beginning of his Original, the many Languages, they stand a-top of Christ the life, as in Luke the 23. They must be redeemed from Languages, as in the Revelations. So now I say, as I said afore, the life is risen that fathoms Babel and Babylon, which gives to see before Pilate was, that set the many Languages over him, the life is risen over them; and so the pride, and beauty, and glory is marred and stained( which they have in their Original) with the life which they were set over, which brings to see the beginning before the world was made.  
They  told us, that the Law and Testimony was the Old, and New Testament, meaning the books of Moses and the Prophets, and the four books of Matthew, mark, Luke, John, the Epistles, and the Revelations; and Isaiah the 8. saith come to the Law, and to the Testimony, and that was before the four books, and the Epistles, and the Revelations was written in the days of Isaiah. And the Scripture saith, The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy; And the law is light, saith Solomon, Prov. 6. Now Isaiah had the Law, and had the Testimony, for he had light, and the spirit of prophesy, for he saw Christ and his sufferings, and said, a virgin should have a child, call his name Imanuel, which by interpretation is God with us. Mark, God with us. Man driven from God in the first Adam, man brought to God in the second Adam. Now who comes to witness the interpretation, God with us. Christ in you the Imanuel, in the Male, and the Female. So the Saints words people have had, but the life that gave them forth hath been wanting: so people have not been in unity one with another, nor with God nor with Scriptures, therefore is God bringing his people into the life that gave forth the Scriptures; with which spirit they shall come into unity with himself, and one with another.  
And the Ministers of the world they have  told us, that we should try the spirits. Now such spirits as the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles cried against, who was in the true spirit wee cannot own. For those spirits that taught for filty lucre, love of money, were covetous, were strikers, were envious, admired mens persons because of advantage, went in Cora's Cains, and Balaams way, that serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies, minded earthly things, which the Apostle calls evil beasts; which Christ called hirelings, which will fly because they are hirelings, and cares not for the sheep, because the sheep are none of his. Such as bear rule by their means as preach for the fleece, that divine for the money, that teacheth for hire, that will preach peace to people, that will put in their mouths, if not prepare war against them. These bring the people all a heaps as they did Jerusalem, Mar. 3. That seek for their gain from their Quarter, that teacheth for the price, and have a price almost in every Parish. Such spirits, the spirit of the Prophets, the spirit of Christ, the spirit of the Apostles proved, and tried, and disapproved, and was always contrary to those spirits, and the Apostles spirit, and Christs spirit judged them, as you may see recorded in Scripture. And the Prophet said ho every one that thirsteth come freely, without money, or without price. Mark, without a price; and them that runs with prices, doth not obey the Prophets words. And he must lift up his voice like a trumpet, and cry aloud and spare not. And Christ saith, who is the end of the Prophets, Freely ye have received, freely give. And the Apostle that preached Christ, he that would have bought the gift of God, and sold it for money, the Apostle  told him he was in the gull of bitterness, in the bond of iniquity, under iniquities bond, to compare the gift of God, or value it, or equal it or measure it, or liken it to outward things, perishing things, corruptible things, gold or silver. Here was the promoters of the Gospel, here was the high exalters of the gift of God. A company of dreamers, sellling and buying the Apostles words given forth from the spirit of God, how many thousand pounds a year doth men gain by it, it shows that they have not received the gift. If they had received the gift of God, which is perfect, they would know the worth and preciousness of it. But it shows that they have nothing but what they have bought at Schools, and had out of Books, and old Authors, and so sell that again by the glass to get a livelihood by to maintain their wives and children, and these have gone under the name to preach the Gospel. When doth their Gospel bring any to lay all their estates at their feet? And so if they cannot get their means, their stypends, their tithes; so preaching for Glebe lands, Augmentations, Easter reckonings, midsummer deuce; and if they cannot get it, if others now for conscience sake cannot give it them, they sue them at the Law, and prison them, yea till death. Now are not these the Ministers of unrighteousness, messengers of Satan, that will sue men at the Law they do no work for, for tithes and maintenance, and prison men for tithes and maintenance, that they do no work for? So let but all ye Magistrates, let the Ministers see how they can live of the Gospel, by preaching of it, preaching the Gospel, how they can live of it, and how they can plant a vineyard; how they can work, and how they can thrash in hope, and plow in hope; and how they can get a flock that will give them milk; and how they can get out corn, they muzzle not their mouths. But the evil beasts mouth that minds earthly things, that teacheth for filthy lucre, for the love of money, and serves not the Lord Jesus Christ, but his own belly, his mouth must be stopped.  
And the teachers have  told us, that if they was covetous, and if they was envious and contentious, and full of strife, yet the Apostle rejoiced at such preachers, and Christ bids, hear Pharisees, and do as they said. Yea, that was a time before Christ was offered up before the Law and the Prophets was fulfilled and finished; and so they was to hear the Law and the Prophets, and do it, for then they did as they would be done by; the Pharisees said and did not as they would be done by: So when Christ was offered up, he said it was finished. Now the Pharisees said the words of the Law and the Prophets, but did not do them; so the woe Christ pronounced was to them who was hypocrites, and the word is to them that say the words of the Law and the Prophets, and do not do them. And so Christ who is the end of the Law and the Prophets, who said it was finished, said, go preach the Gospel. Christ then did not bid them hear the Pharisees, then they went into the Temple to bring them off of the Priests, off of their offerings, off of their Covenant to the everlasting Covenant, everlasting Priest-hood; their bodies the Temples of God, and one offering Christ. And as for preaching of Christ of envy and strife, and contention, that was a time when few did believe in Christ. So it was a spreading of Christs name abroad; he suffered envious men, contentious men, men of strife to spread his name abroad among the Jews, and among the Gentiles, the everlasting covenant, the one offering, the blood of Jesus. That tormented the Jews that had their Priests, their Temple, their tithes and offerings, for they was in danger to be cast out of the Synagogue, that confessed the name of Christ. Now when his name was spread abroad, that man that had got the form, but denied the power, from such the Apostle bids, turn away; envious men, contentious men, men of strife. So if they have the form of the Gospel, the form of the Law, the form of Christs words, and not the power, they are to be turned from.  
Again, the fruits of this Ministry& Church since the dayes of the Apostles, doth manifest itself in the apostasy. For if any thing be revealed to him that sits by, bid the other hold his peace: You may all speak one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. He will bid the Magistrate take him away, he troubles me, and so they take him to the stocks, or to prison, was not this Queen Maries law? and doth not this show apostasy from the Apostle, who saith, if any thing be revealed to another, let the first that sits by hold his peace; they may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets; and God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, and this was in all the Churches of Christs order, 1 Cor. 14. But this to say something is revealed to me that sits by, hold thy peace, sets all your Church into confusion, and distraction, take him away, take him away, he hath disturbed me, to stocks, to prison with him, knock him down, to the house of Correction with him. You may see how ye have quenched the spirit here, and despised prophesy, and apostatised from the Apostles doctrine. They may all prophesy one by one, saith the true Apostle, not made by the will of man. Now this is confusion among all those made by Schools, in the will of man, which hath tithes, Stypends, Augmentations, Glebe lands, midsummer deuce, Easter reckonings. Now men may teach men to red naturally, and yet are not the Ministers of Christ; for Paul could red that when he was not a Minister, but a persecutor.  
And again, they have given us Davids fastings, Davids reproaches, Davids prophesying, Davids quakings and tremblings, Davids praises, and prayers to sing in a metre, and  told us which we must sing with the spirit, and with the understanding, and sing in grace. And we see neither the giver, nor the singer was in the spirit, and in the understanding; for the spirit gives to see that time, and to understand that time of praising, that time of fasting, that time of praying, that time of reproaching, that time of roaring, and quaking, and trembling; and people; it gives to understand each in its place. The Spirit doth distinguish praises from prayers, prophesies, reproaches from fastings, quakings, tremblings,& people must sing, that they were not puffed in mind,& had no scornful eye; when they were so puffed in mind they could scarce look upon one another, and to sing in the grace, and to sing in the spirit is owned. The grace that teacheth to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, to live godly, righteously, and sobeply in this present evil world; and the grace of God hath appeared to all men, which brings salvation, and in this grace here is singing praises to God and hallelujah, Amen hallelujah.  
And the truth hath been held in unrighteousness, while all peoples minds have been reprobated from that of God in them; and all the people of the earth must come to that which may be known of God in them, before they come to retain God in their knowledge, retain the Covenant, Gods Covenant, or hold the truth in the righteousness which the sin and enmity is out of; as the Jews held the truth in unrighteousness, while their minds was reprobated from that of God manifested in them, and was not like to retain God in their knowledge, nor his covenant of light. So have these holden the truth in unrighteousness since the days of the Apostles, which Christ said there should come inwardly raveners, John saw went forth was come, and all the world went after, and all the Nations have drunk their cup, these have holden truth in unrighteousness; how should they do otherwise? when their minds was inwardly ravened from the spirit that was in them, and run into names, and heads, and horns, and crowns. So holding it since the days of the Apostles in the unrighteousness, inwardly ravened from the spirit, so from the unity and bond of peace, and in that which God was worshipped; the enmity having been in every ones mind, and hath been from the life tha● gave forth Scriptures, they have had the sheeps clothing, and that hath covered the wolf, and truth being holden in the unrighteousness, in the sin, in the enmity, they being ravened from the spirit; It hath not been a likely thing, nor is it, that such should own the light within them, that are ravened from it, and own the word of God within them, and Christ within, and the anointing within, when they are ravened from it; nor like to retain God in their knowledge. Therefore this is the word of the Lord God to ye all, and to the present age& generation, to that which they are all ravened from, inwardly ravened from, must all people come before they worship God in the spirit, or hold the truth in the righteousness; that is that which sin and evil is out of. Neither is there any likelinesse to retain God in their knowledge, until they come to that which they ravened from, that which may be known of God manifest in them( which all the world who runs after them which breaks into heaps be from it) to hold the truth in the righteousness that sin, and the enmity is out of, or retain Gods covenant, the Rock, that Jesus him by whom the world was made, that which they ravened from, which Christ said should come, John saw was come, which went out into the world, which all the world run after, to which now many are come, with which they retain God in their knowledge, and know his Covenant.  
Now the Jews say, God is worshipped at Samaria, and at the mount where Jacobs well was, or at Jerusalem. The Priests tell us he is worshipped at the Steeple-house, the Papists houses, which the Papists set up, with the cross at the end of them. Christ saith, he is worshipped in the spirit, and the truth, that which the Devil is out of, and in the spirit that gave forth the Scriptures; in which is the unity and fellowship, and the bond of peace, which spirit never changes. Steeple houses may change, Samaria may change, Jerusalem may change, and these worshippers change, the spirit that gave forth the Scripture never changes, and the Truth doth never change; that which the devil abode not in, which changes not, and who be in that, are in that which is out of, in Covenant with God, in pe●ce with God.  
And the Priests  told us of creeping into houses, leading silly women captive laden with sin, and divers lusts, which always were learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; which the Apostle compared them to be as Jannes and Jambres, who with stood Moses when the children of Israel was to come out of egypt; and he saith, they was covetous, lovers of themselves, and these kept people always learning,& never able to the knowledge of the truth, laden with sins; and then that Doctrine crept in, which is now past over the world, they are such as are lovers of themselves, covetous, leading people till they be 30. 40. 50. 60. 80 years of age, and they be always learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, having a form of godliness, denying the power, from such turn away. And they telling people while they be upon the earth, they must have the body of sin, then they are lead away with divers lusts that feeds the body, and these are said was reprobate concerning the faith that gave victory, in which is the unity. So they might have said to the Apostle, doth not thou creep into a house? hast not thou taught in thy own hired house for two years together at R me? and dost not thou deny the Temple which God commanded, and preach in thy own house? Yea, the Apostle was in the power, and taught the kingdom of God to all that came to him, he was in the substance, he was in the authority. Now they that had the form, and denied the power, denied the authority, and these kept people always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. For the Apostle could leave his people, and go into other Nations, and tell them the light that shined in their hearts, would give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And  told them the Word of God was in their hearts to obey it, and do it; and  told them, the anointing was within them, and needed no man to teach them, but as that did teach them, and as it did teach them they should continue in the son of God, and the Father, 1 Joh. 2. Rom. 10. Cor. 2.4. Now that Doctrine which is crept in, is passed over the world, which keeps people always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; which are covetous, and lovers of themselves, planting themselves in Parsonages, tithes, Augmentations, Medsomer deuce, Easter reckonings. When did these leave their people, and tell them they need no man to teach them, but as the anointing within teacheth, and the word within, and the light within, which would give them the knowledge of the glory of God, and so have such as crept into houses lead people always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, have kept them laden with sin, and divers lusts, have kept people in spiritual egypt and sodom, as the others striven to keep them in the dayes of Moses in egypt, the children of Israel.  
Now spiritual sodom is come to light, and spiritual egypt is come to light, darkness: and so they that doth deny the light that doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world, keeps people in spiritual sodom, and spiritual egypt, that is filthiness and darkness. So they are not like ever to be able to come to the knowledge of the truth, while they are lead that are reprobate from the Faith, and keeps men in spiritual egypt and sodom, and none upon the Earth doth ever come to the knowledge of the truth; but who come to the light which Christ the truth hath enlightened them withal, which doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world, and every one that cometh into the world have a light from the truth, he being turned to the light which Christ hath enlightened him withal, is turned to the truth Christ from whence it came, who is the way to God, the covenant of light: and here cometh every one to the knowledge of the truth, the light that shines in his heart to give him the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. So when the false Apostles, Devils ministers, Devils messengers, ministers of unrighteousness, was got up among the Corinthians, it was the work of the true Apostles, true Ministers, true Messengers, true Ambassadors, to bring the Corinthians to the light that shined in their hearts, and  told them that would give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. That was the work of the true Apostle, when such was got up among the Romans, that served not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own b llies, to bring them to the word of Faith which was in their hearts, in their mouths, to be obedient to it. And then he set up some objections and queries, How should they hear without a preacher? and how should he preach except he were sent? Then he queries again, Have they not all heard? and he answered his own query, he saith, Yes verily, the sound is gone out throughout all the world, and the words to the end of the earth, but they have not obeied it, Rom. 10. And it was the work of the true Apostle John, when that Antichrists were come, and false prophets were come, and entered into the world,( which Christ had said to them, they should come, which should be the inward raveners, and he bid them not go after them) he brought them to the anointing in them, and  told them that would teach them; And they need not any man to teach them, but the same anointing to teach them, which abideth in them; and as it should teach them, they should abide in God the Father. From this are ye apostatised Ministers, Teachers, and hearers; and the other must be accounted strange Doctrine: And these things did John writ to them concerning them that seduced them. And the Ministers, and Professors, and Teachers, since the days of the Apostles, say, and have said, that the light that John bare testimony of, which doth lighten every man that cometh into the world, is a natural light, or a created light, or a made light, or light of conscience; and saith, what, is drunkards enlightened? and heathen enlightened? and swearers, and thieves, and murtherers enlightened? I say yes; for drunkenness is an evil dead, add murder, and theft, &c. And they will not come to the light, but hate the light, and will not come to it because it reproves them, because their deeds be evil, and so loves the darkness rather then the light because their deeds be evil; because it will reprove them, and will not come to it, therefore it is their condemnation. And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather then light, because their deeds be evil. And as for heathen, saying, the heathen are not enlightened. I will give him for a covenant, for a light unto the Gentiles, and these are called Heathens. I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel& of Judah.  
And those are called the people of God, in which Covenant Jews and Gentiles come to be one, and I say, all things that was made was made by the light; and all things that was created was created by the light, and the light was before the name and the word Conscience was, and it is that which exerciseth the conscience towards God, and towards men, the light which cometh from Christ the Author of Faith, which faith is held in a pure conscience.  
And as for the created light, and the made light, and natural lght, he made the Sun, he made the Moon, he made the Stars, these be the made lights, created, that are natural, the natural eye may see, and all those lights was made by Christ the true light, which was before they was made, before they was created; for all things that was made was made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. So he was before any thing was made, any light was made, created, who was glorified with the Father before the world began: Who came a light into the world, and lighteneth every man that cometh into the world, that all men through him might believe. In this light men might come into the Covenant of God; and all who hates light; and believes not, are with it condemned already. So the light was before the Word, or name Conscience was; for all things was made by him before they was name, and things was made by the light before they was name, and conscience may be scared, and yet the light is the condemnation of him whose conscience is seared.  
And these Ministers, and Teachers, and Professors( that are got up since the dayes of the Apostles) deny perfection, overcoming of sin while they be upon the Earth, or being made clean from sin, or be cleansed, or made free from sin, so have made the offering of none effect; which by the one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified, Heb. 10. And if ye walk in the light as he is in the light, then ye shall have fellowship one with another( therefore it is that people have not fellowship) and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, so have made the blood of Jesus Christ of none effect, John 1. And he was manifested to take away sin; the second Adam( mark) to take it away. This the Apostles preached, and they say men may have it while they live upon the Earth; therefore whose Ministers are they? Ye are circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, putting ●ff the body of sin( those that are made by the colleges denies this) and the new covenant which blots out sin and transgression. I will make a new Covenant, saith the Lord God, with the house of Israel and Judah, I will blot out your sins. And we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, saith the Apostle in the Corinthians. And he ascended on high, he gave gifts unto men, for the work of the Ministry, for the perfecting of the Saints, and the gifts of God are perfect; Some Apostles, some Pastors, some Teachers, until they all come to the unity of the faith( that is that which gives victory over the world, by which they have unity with God, and unity one with another) and to the knowledge of the son of God, and to a perfect man, and to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. This was the work of the Ministry, the Ministers work, the Prophets, the Pastors, the Teachers, the Apostles that had received their gifts from him that ascended on high. Not from Schools and colleges, as our Ministers since have, and deny perfection, Which gifts they had received, which was perfect, was for the Ministry, which was for the perfecting of the Saints. Mark, for the perfecting of them, until they all come to the unity of the faith, and to the knowledge of the son of God, and to a perfect man, and to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. This was the Ministers work.  
Now all that say they are the Ministers of Christ, and deny perfection, they deny the work of the ministry of Christ, which received the gifts of God which was perfect, from him who was perfect, which gifts was for the perfecting; for every gift of God is perfect; that I may impart some gift to you. Imparting the gift, he imparts that which was perfect, that was before their stablishing.  
Now the Apostle that declared the work of the Ministry, that was for the perfecting of the Saints, that Ministers work; he declared of other Ministers, and of other Doctrine, that tossed too and fro, is the windy doctrine and sights of men, and cunning, and craft, whereby they lay in wait to deceive, and speak not the truth in the love. So here is no perfection, here is no overcoming; here is the body of sin, here they sin while they be upon the Earth, here they must have the chaff, and their windy doctrine: Mark, windy, that carries about with their cunning, and sleights, and craftiness, which they have learned at their Schools, and colleges: So no perfection, no establishment, but tossing too and fro; Men carry people about, therefore is people tossed up and down by so many, and tossed too and fro; here is no gift of God received, and witnessed, and these are all made by mans will; they may toss the chaff with their windy doctrine, but they cannot toss the Wheat, the seed of God, the elect before the foundation of the world was they cannot deceive; that which the Ministers of God, which receive their gift from God, which is perfect, strikes through the chaff, the imperfect to the seed of God, which inherits the promises of God, whereby people comes to be heires of God and of life, and inheriting the promises of God, and so established and perfected in every good work, and not tossed up and down with every wind, and cunning wil●ss and craft which they have got at Schools. And so here is the difference of each Ministry, Ephes. 4. The pearl is found, and the Field is purchased in England.  
The Teachers and Professors have  told us of Sunday and Monday; the Scriptures never  told us of Sunday, nor Monday, the first day, second day, third day, fourth day, 5, 6, seventh day among the true Jews, among the true Christians. But we hear by the old authors, and almanacs of the Heathen, that worshipped the Sun, that did worship the Moon, that they call the Suns day, and do worship the Moon, and that they call the Moons day, and so after their gods, and their Planets they name them. We see they are neither like unto the Jews, nor like unto the Christians practise.  
And Christ saith in Matth. 23. when he spake to the multitude, and to his Disciples both, and gives the marks of the blind guides, how the multitude should know them, and the Disciples know them; The hypocrites and blind guides, he saith, that they love the uppermost rooms at feasts; he saith; they are sayers, and not doers; he saith, they lay heavy burdens upon the people; he said, they loved the salutations in the markets; he said, they had the chiefest seats in the assemblies; he saith, they stand praying in the Synagogues; he saith, they should put out of the Synagogues, and persecute from City to City, that all the righteous blood might come upon them,  shed from righteous Abel to Zachariah. He saith, they are called of men Master; and be not ye called of men Master, for ye have all one Master even Christ, and ye are all Brethren. And now we do not red of Mr. Paul, Mr. Peter, Mr. Timothy, Mr. Titus, Mr. Matthew, Mr. Luke, Mr. John. So wee find them not in the steps of the Apostles, but they are successors of the Pharisees. If I was one of the multitude, I could tell if my guide was called of men Master, had the chiefest place in the Assembly, the uppermost room at Feasts, went in long robes; and if he were a sayer, and not a doer, and laid heavy burdens upon the people, which Christ saith, be not ye so, that are called of men Master, for ye have one Master even Christ, and ye are all Brethren, and pronounced seven woes against them: So if I was one of this multitude, I could know them by these distinctions.  
Because that Friends have declared to the Nation, they cannot swear, therefore doth many great men in their Courts, their bailiffs, and many Justices make a prey upon them, fining of them, straining of their goods, because they cannot take an Oath, and thus are they glad when men can make spoil. And likewise Priests which knoweth friends, and the Impropriators knoweth that Friends cannot pay tithes, therefore do they never heed them, as knowing the Law will give them triple damages; so they come and take five times the value, that until they have taken the cattle, and goods, and bedding, platters, pots away from people, that they have not had a Cow to give them milk, nor a pot to dress them meat, nor a bed to lie on. And so they never matter for taking their tithes, so long as they have the Law to give them triple, and then they can make havoc, and spoil their goods, and then boast, and say the Law hath given it them. And if this be the life of a Christian, it is a grievous one.  
While the Priests and Professors are crying against Popery in words, and they themselves have the Papists Crosses upon that which they call their Church ends, and have Papists names to them, and Papists names to their colleges, and have their midsummer deuce, and their Easter reckonings, and their offerings, and their Popish names to their Dayes, yea, upon their very childrens Battle doors as they learn, there is a Christ-crosse( as they call it.) Now whilst the Priests, and Professors, and Teachers, cry against Popery in words, and have all these things in practise among them, the Papists in the mean time laugh at them. And they are talking of taking of the Oath of Abjuration, and swearing against popery, and in the mean time are gravelled in it, stick fast in it.  
When did a Priest or Professor take the oath of Abjuration, that was made a Minister at St. Johns college, or Christs college, or Jesus college, or Imanuel college, or Trinity college, or of St. Peters Steeple-house, or St. Maries, or St. Andrews, or St. Johns, or St. Philips, or St. Pauls, or St. Michaels, or Saint laurence, &c. and have other Steeple houses with Crosses at the end of them, and have Easter reckonings, midsummer deuce, and offerings, and tithes, and their Steeple-houses stand East and West built in imitation, and calling their days by Saints names, as Saint Thomas day, Saint Peters day, Saint Matthews day, Saint Johns day, &c. Popish names. When did these Priests take the oath of Abjuration, or Professors, and deny Popery in the life. Now while they are making a pudder, and a stir of denying Popery, and live in the steps of Popery, the Papists laugh at them. And their putting their oath of Abjuration to such as cannot swear, but are in Christs commands, and are come out of the apostasy and Popery.  
Where do you red of the Apostles; or but since the days of the Apostles in the apostasy, call the dayes by the name of Christmas, where do you red of christmas, and candlemas; where do you red of candlemas day, or where do you red of michaelmas day: Mark, mass, or Lammass, or Saint Jammass, or Martin mass, Mark-masse. Now how are ye out of Popery, when mass is mentioned so up in every word of your dayes. So now is not all this up since the Apostles time in the apostasy? and hath not the Pope given the names of these dayes? Now if ye deny Popery, deny the Popes authority, and the Popes teaching, and for him to give names to these days, and away with this mass.  
Now to make a prey upon them as Papists, because we know they cannot swear, nor take an oath, and because they deny the Steeple-house the Papist house, and will not come at it, and deny tithes, whose beginning of was the Pope. And so because ye will not swear, and break Christs commands, who saith, swear not at all; therefore will you put them in as Papists, whereby you may spoil their goods, make havoc of their goods, render their names odious among the Ignorant; but thus to the whole Nation you will render yourselves ridiculous, and a known act contrary to that of God in your consciences, in causing your Constables to put in the names of such as Papists, as you know are not Papists, nor popishly affencted, nor your Constables neither. And so some simplo, and wicked people, that are Constables, may revenge themselves, and revenge your envy upon the innocent, and glad they can have such an opportunity.  
Though the Protector said that the oath of Abjuration was never intended for Quakers, but only for Papists and popishly affencted; this spoken he to Colonel Benson, and Anthony Pearson, who gave him an answer from the Quakers to the Oath of Abjuration, who deny all Popery; who  told him that seeing an Oath of Abjuration was given forth into the Nation to be taken, for Papists to take it. There is many corrupt Justices, as knowing friends could not swear, and not take an oath, they would make a prise upon them, and a prey upon them by it, and be glad they had such an opportunity to make spoil, or to make sport upon the innocent. Saith Oliver cromwell the Protector, it was never intended to the Quakers, he never intended it. So some Justices must render their names odious to the honesthearted, by making a prey upon the simplo and innocent, that their loftiness might appear, and not their sincerity and singleness in doing the thing to what it doth intend. For it is known to the whole Nation, that the Quakers cannot take an oath; if they take all the goods they have from them, they dare not break Christs commands, who saith, Swear not at all. It is not a popish oath that they stand against onely, but all oaths whatsoever is called an oath: For they that swear do fall into condemnation, saith the Apostle James. And as saith Christ, Swear not at all.  
Now dissembling hypocrites can swear and for-swear; but true Christians cannot swear, that abide in Christs Doctrine; and they make a prey upon them that cannot swear, and cannot take an oath, but are come to yea, and nay, in their communication.  
Therefore all ye Justices take heed of rendering your names odious among sober people, by making a prey upon the Innocent, by forcing any to swear against the Innocent, and making a prey upon them as ye know cannot swear as Papists, because thereby ye have an advantage to spoil their goods, and make a prey upon them because they cannot take no oath. Now it is so, that ye may proffer them any oath besides the oath of Abjuration, but they cannot take it; for Christ saith, swear not at all.  
Now if you say the Prophets swore, or Moses swore, or Abraham, or Jacob, or Joseph, or David swore; or Samuel, or Moses. Christ is the end of Moses and the Prophets, and before Abraham was; the end of the Priests, which reigns over the house of Jacob, and Joseph, who saith, swear not at all, Matth. 5. Now if you say men of strife swear; who be in strife, are out of yea and nay; and out of Christs Doctrine. Now if you say the Angel swore in the Revelations, behold I bring forth my first begotten into the world, let all the Angels worship him; Christ Jesus who ends strife, and sets peace betwixt man and God, Gods Covenant. So make not a prey upon the Innocent, but deliver the Innocent out of the snare, that God requires of you that is your duty that be faithful Magistrates: and break the bond of iniquity, ease the oppressed, break the jaws of the wicked, that tears and rents the Innocent in pieces; then ye are Judges like Job, like Moses, like Solomon; who saith, afore honour goes humility.  
Now because they say thee, and thou to you, and cannot doffe their hats to you, and come to your Popish house, and cannot swear, which is known throughout the Nation, and Ireland and Scotland; that those that are in scorn called Quakers dare not swear, and take an oath, and the Islands about it. Therefore will you make a prey upon them? cause them to be summoned to Courts; which ye know cannot swear, and to have all people here laugh at you secretly, and see it is out of spite and malice, and that ye act contrary to that ye know against your own knowledge, and conscience: and is that justice, or is it spleen and wilfulness? But it is not estates, that friends looks at, nor at them that you suffer to spoil their goods. For when they could not swear to their tithes, the Priests would spoil their goods; and now because they cannot take an oath, will ye come to make havoc of them.  
Render not your names ridiculous? bring not your names to evil report in the Nation, but do that which is savoury, and of good report. And because friends will not hold up a company of Priests made at popish houses at the popish colleges, and are held up at the popish houses, and have tithes, whose ground of it was popish; therefore these things lie weighty upon you; though now ye be high, yet to the witness in you all I speak, the light which will be your condemnation if you hate it, who can transgress Christs commands, and the Apostles commands so easily; and make havoc of them that cannot transgress Christs command, and number them among swearers, among Papists, that can swear: For ye know that they cannot swear. And so ye put no difference between the precious and the vile, and such as the Law was not made for; and so in this is putting no difference betwixt the precious and the vile, the Law was made for, and the Law was not made for; between the lawless, and the righteous; ye turn your sword backward upon the righteous, and act as blind men, which all along in the Scriptures are cried against: For the law was not made for the righteous, but for sinners, and transgressors. So ye go and tie your Law upon them that cannot swear, nor take an oath, and make a prey upon them, and number them with Papists that ye know can swear, which the witness of God in all consciences will cry against, and not bless ye and God will help the innocent, and deliver them from the net of the fowlers, who is a present help in time of need, and can deliver them out of the jaws of the wicked, such as can transgress his commands, though now they may boast-like proud Pharaoh, and nabuchadnezzar, and say, who can deliver them out of my hand? who is God? or who is Christ? who saith, swear not at all. When he gives you a reward according to your works, ye shall know the wrath of the Lamb, and the judgements of God to be right and just, who had time to do good, and did it not, who might have broken off the bonds of iniquity, and shewed mercy.  
G. F.   

How can you expect that the Saints should come to the Steeple-house which you call your Church? And how can they take the Oath of Abjuration, and deny all Popery, and the popish house? For the Papists themselves would go to that house if they had authority, and be glad they might meet there, for you may see that the popish cross stands upon the end of it in many places. And now do ye suspect friends to be Papists, because they will not come to the Popish house. Nay deny them to be any Ministers, or hearing of them, that were made at popish houses. And suspect friends to be Papists because they will not swear, and take an oath, and ye know Papists will swear for their own ends: and if friends would mind their own ends, they might swear for their own ends.  
But who abides in the doctrine of Christ denies himself and oaths both, and all the Popes authority. There was not a cross set upon the Steeple-house end, but in the Popes authority; had not they the names given unto them by the Popes authority? Nay, had not they the names given to the colleges by the Popes authority? and had ye not yout names given to your dayes by the Popes authority; as your Christmas, and Candlemas, and Michaelmas, and Martinmas, and Saint Johns day, and Saint Peters day, &c. Now how can ye deny Popery, when all this was set up by the Popes authority? And how can you now have any desire to have any to go to Steeple-houses with crosses at the end of them; and some of them have been thrown down by this age. And Christ saith, they that worship God must worship him in spirit, not at Jerusalem, nor at Samaria; so we say not at the houses which the Papists have set up, but he is worshipped in spirit, and in truth, in that that gave forth the Scriptures, and in the truth the Devil is out of.  
G. F.   

Friends, take heed of setting up that which God will throw down, lest ye be found fighters against God. And take heed of setting up Ministers made by the will of man; for such go in their own names, and such man will receive, but such could never own them that came in the name of God, by the will of God, by them that stood in their own wills; For such as be in their own wills, made by the will of man, such are they that be in strife with their Parishes, for tithes and maintenance up and down the Nations, and in most of the Courts of the Nation, are the Priests summoning up the people with Writs, haling them before Courts and Benches, and Sessions for maintenance, such as they do no work for.  
Now this gives an ill savour up and down the Nations, and shows that their Ministry is not as the Apostles was that hath not the effect with it, and the operation, but is apostated from it; for Christ said, freely ye have received, freely give again to the people. And you see, they sold their possessions, and came and laid it down at the Apostles feet. These were the Ministers of Christ, in the power of Christ, to whom the hearts of the people are opened.  
Now these that are made by the will of man, since the dayes of the Apostles, and hath not received freely, not cannot give freely again, but are fair to petition you, and summon many of their Parishes, such as be not their hearers up to Courts, an hundred, or two hundred miles, for maintenance, such as they do no work for, and hath not hired them. These are a disgrace to the Truth, and dishonour to the Gospel, that such should be the Ministers of it.  
Now if you be such as propagate the Gospel, and own the Gospel, which Gospel is the power of God, and free Gospel. Now that ye may tolerate the preaching of that, and then as for the maintenance and means of Ministers, leave that to the people, and see if the preaching of that will so open the hearts of people as to lay down their possessions at the feet of Ministers, and so let a man plant a Vineyard before he eat of the fruit of it; let him get a Flock before he eat of the milk, so thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn, that treadeth out the wheat, then the ox may eat, and they that preach the Gospel, may live of the Gospel.  
Now establishing of maintenance for Ministers, and giving them a set maintenance, and they taking it by compulsion, by an outward law, this is never likely to open the hearts of people, nor ever likely for men to plant a vineyard, nor get a Flock, not ever likely to bring men to live of the Gospel, when they have a set maintenance set them. For the Jews Priests that had Temples, Synagogues, they had tithes: The Priest-hood that was made by a Law, he had a commandement to take tithes of the people. Now the Law being changed, and the Priest-hood being changed also, and the commandement disannulled that gave them tithes, as Hebrews 7. So Christ sent forth his, that as they had received freely, freely they were to give; and when meate was set before them, they might eat. He sent them forth as sheep amongst wolves, and you see many were moved to lay down at their feet. And the Apostle said, he had the power to eat and to drink, but he had not used his power to the Corinthians, that he might keep the Gospel without charge: So since the form of godliness, men have ravened from the Spirit, and the form of godliness they have had amongst them; but the power being denied and not in it, therefore that is denied that they should open the hearts of the people, and is wanting, and they have ravened from the Spirit, and the sheeps clothing they have had, that hath covered the wolf.  
Some have been almost stoned to death, laid for dead for rebuking sin in the Gates and Steeple-houses, knocked down and bruised, blood  shed; some bear in Markets and highways, who never lifted up a hand against any. Some prisoned to death for speaking to the Priests as they have been moved of the Lord; many prisoned because they cannot pay tithes, and have their goods distrained, and household goods and cattle taken and driven away, pans and beds, and Plow gear carried away, because rhey cannot pay the Priest tithes; and are cast into prison, and prisoned till death; yet Priests, and Professors, and many corrupt Magistrates, without the fear of God will say they are Papists, and cast them into prison, and ready to burn: and they that brand us with that name of Papists, they cast into prison till death, and the Papists they cast into prison till death for denying their worship, their Priests, their Crosses, their Images, as witness the innocent man George bailie, who was moved of the LORD to go into France, who was cast into prison at Paris, and there kept till he dyed, there prisoned till death, whose innocent and righteous blood lies upon that nation, upon the heads of all Papists, and upon them that hath branded us with the names of Papists. They were not content in France the Papists, till they had prisoned to death, and tasted of the blood of the righteous and innocent; and they the Papists in France would have burnt Christopher Birket; but the Judges fell out one amongst another, and this is the mad generation of men, whose madness never appeared so in any age.  
God hath a glorious seed to rise, the sprinkling of it is gathering, and with the life shall God be known, and into the life is he bringing his people the Saints near, in that he gave forth the Scriptures, and selfish principled men that hath made a trade of them, and professed them for their own ends, shall be ashamed and confounded, and their rage, and madness, and folly shall appear unto all men, that they be in another spirit then they were in, who gave forth the Scriptures, whose words they profess; and cover their wolfish spirits, who are ravened from the Spirit, and hath had the form of godliness, and the Earth hath been like a wilderness, while the mindes of Gods people have been from the Spirit of God in them, but now to the Spirit of God in people is the Lord turning them, that with it shall they know him, in which he will be worshipped, in which people shall have unity with him, and with the Scriptures, and one with another, and know the Scriptures, and know one another in the Spirit, and know God the Father of spirits and come to live in love and unity and peace one with another; and of all the worlds Teachers and Churches, will the Lord God bring his people to teach them himself to the Church in God, Christ Jesus the way to the Father; for such as have made a trade of the Scriptures made by the will of man, and preached for their winds, are them that ravened from the spirit, and erred from it, and admire mens persons because of advantage, hath kept people from the spirit, and so they are grown like a wilderness; so by that means come they neither Priest nor people to know God, taught by mans will, made Ministers by mans will, which is all judged by them made by the will of God, which answers that of God in Ministers and people, which they must come to if ever they own God.  
The mighty day of the Lord is come; Christ Jesus is come to reign, the Lamb of God, who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world: Every one having a light from him, being turned to the light, ye are turned to Christ, with which light you come to see Christ, all loving it; with which light ye will all come to see your Saviour; but hating it, it is your condemnation.  
And now oh Protector! who hast tasted of the power of God, which many generations before thee hath not hardly so much since the days of apostasy from the Apostles, therefore take heed that thou lose not thy power; But keep Kingship off thy head which the world would give to thee, and earthly crowns under thy feet, lest with that thou cover thyself, and so lose the power of God. When the children of Israel went from that of God in them, they would have Kings as other nations had, as transgressors had, and so God gave them one, and what did they do then? And when they would have taken Christ and made him a King, he hide himself from them; he was hide from that which would have made him a King, he who was the king of the Jews inward, who hath the praise of God, to that he was known, but hide from the jew outward, whose praise is of men: And ye powers of the earth, take heed of making earthly Kings, or looking after earthly Kings, lest ye hurt and undo yourselves and others, but mind the witness of God in you, that you may see that which the children of Israel went from, when they set up Kings as other Nations,& that mind that in them would have made Christ a King, and did not know that he was a king, therefore mind the witness of God in you, that you may see over all the Kings upon earth, and may answer that which is transgressed in every one: Ye heathen that sets up Kings, and knows not the Lord the King, the Law-giver and Judge, and knows not Christ the King, therefore mind that that will let you see out of transgression, and let you see another King, Law-giver, and judge, with that you may answer that of God in every one, and then you will feel God will be a blessing to you. And oh Oliver! take heed of undoing thyself, by running into things that will fade, the things of this world that will change.  
From a lover of your souls, and the eternal good and establishing of righteousness, truth and justice, and a lover of mercy, truth, equity, justice, true measure, true weight: And be faithful to the Lord God in your places, that to other Nations round about you may be patterns and examples: and then to all your enemies you will be a terror,& joy to the good. Be subject and obedient to the Lord God. Geo: Fox.   
 
red this through, and you may see what hath apostated since the days of the Apostles.  
THE END.