A New Declaration OUT OF ORIENT: Isa. 42. Psal. 50. 51 87. 97. OR, From the rising up of Mount Zion, the beloved Apoc. 21. Isa. 52. 66. Mic. 4. City of GOD, the New Jerusalem. Viz. That the Mountain where the House of the LORD standeth shall yet assuredly in these present and last times, upon the ruins of the Sectarian 2 Pet. 2. Apoc. 16. Isa. 2. 40. Luk. 3. State of Babel be made higher than all Mountains, and exalted above all the Hills. Concerning all the Nations of whole Europe in general, but principally the shepherds and Teachers, who indeed do not Zac. 10. 11 Ezek. 13. 34. Rom. 16. Psal. 14. Jer. 23. Isa 9 28. Epist. Jud Luk. 21. Mat. 24. Psal. 2. 99 Apoc. 20. Jer. 5. 10. at all serve GOD and the LORD CHRIST, but only themselves, the world, and their own bellies, devouring the people to feed themselves for filthy lueres s●ke, teaching things that savour not, and by the hypocrisy of their false forgiving of sins, drawing the grace of GOD inro lasciviousness. Now b● reason of the present miseries and trouble of war, whereby the Devil is let quite lose now with rage and fury: Chief directed unto the Inhabitants of England, and unto the Mighty Ones, the Governors and Officers of the same. Wisd. 6. LONDON, Printed by R. A. and A. C. 1643. The Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power, 1. Corinth. 4. YE have not the Word of my Father abiding in Joh. 5. you, said Christ unto the Jews; and indeed he should now amongst the Heathens or false Rom. 1. 11. Mat. 7. 21, 24. Isa. 5. 55, 56. Epist. Judas 2 Pet. 3. John 12. Dan. 2. 1 Pet. 2. Rom. 9 Isa. 8. 28, 66. Christians find much less fruitful in this kind, wherefore also this world in their own generation, viz. the scorners and despisers shall be judged according to the power of the living Word of God, Heb. 4. which indeed will prove such a stone, as shall break and bruise those that offend at it, not believing him in whom they are grounded, but rather in regard of the same, striving by their practices or purposes against God, Isa. 8. 28. and will not endure the truth; by reason whereof it is just, that they should become a Mal. 2. 3. Levit. 26. Mic. 6. curse, and perish in the unacknowledgment and contempt of God, like unto the people of the Jews in former times; since they turn away their ears from Psalm. 58. 1 Tim. 1. Tit. 1. the truth, and incline them only to the fables of their teachers, which they have heaped up unto themselves, 2 Tim. 4. Behold! The Kingdom of God is inwardly within you, faith Christ, Luke 17. ACcording whereunto, I do declare by the Word Esa. 49. 55. 66. of God, as a servant of the Lord the supreme Judge, Rev. 19 that the outward Congregations in Churches and Assemblies, or the Temples and 1 Reg. 6. 8. Church governments, settled for that purpose, were 2 Paralyp. 7. instituted only for this end, that people should so be taught and built up in the same, 1 Pet. 2. to be especially according to the New Testament, united or rooted Rom. 9 together in the Spirit by Faith, as members of the Body Col. 2. 3. of Christ, through the bond of peace, and of the Ephes. 2. 4. love of God, Joh. 13. 15. in such sort as that every particular joh. 13. 1. joh. 3. Gal. 5. Eph. 1. 5. member still of the Congregation whereof Jesus Christ is the Head, Col. 1. should feel or participate of the suffering of his neighbour or fellow-member, Rom. 12. 13 and take care for the same; and that the true 1. Cor. 12. believers, being once delivered from the power of Col. 1. Eph. 2. darkness, translated into the heavenly being, and dearly redeemed through the blood of the Son of 1. Pet. 1. God, 1 Cor. 6. 7. might walk circumspectly, Eph. 4. Isa. 28. jer. 23. and know before all things how to frame their do according to the counsel or will of God, Mat. 7. But when the people of the Jews did not abide Heb. 8. after this manner in their Testament, nor walked in Deut. 4. 5. 6 7. 8. 9 10. 11 27. 28. 30. 32. Isa. 1. 3. 5 9 the commandments, rites and rights of the Law of Moses; nor held it worthy, to bring the fruits of the Kingdom of God; Christ did little regard their M●t. 1●. 15. Sabbaths, but rather profaned them, Luk. 6▪ Joh: 2. 8, 9 seeing that thereby they fought but to palliate their Mat. 〈…〉. inward abominations, Ezek. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 22. ●●. I●r. 6 7. 8. 9 ●●. 14. 16. ●●. Isa. 48. 57 Hos. 4. 7. 8. 9 12. joh. 1. 7. 8. 10. false and malicious courses, and to lie yet hid in the same before the eyes of God, Isa. 29. besides, that by reason of this their blindness and hard heartedness they did not at all take heed of or consider the 〈◊〉 of their visitation, 1 Cor. 2. Luk. 19 22. For God, Luk. 16. 22. whom the heaven of all heavens is not able to comprehend, 2 Paralyp. 7. Isa. 66. 1 King 8 doth not at all dwell in outward Temples, such as are only made by men's hands of stone, wood and earth, Acts 7. 17. but in the members 1. Cor. 3. 6. 2. Cor. 6. Rom 3. 5 8. Eph. 1. 2. of his body, that are made partakers of the Spirit of grace, or adoption, Gal. 4. 5, 6. through the redemption of Christ, and live in this world, not unto themselves, 2. Pet 2. jer. 5. 1. Pet 4. Rom. 14. 2 Cor. 5. or according to their own lusts and crafty devices, Epist. Judas. Rom. 1. Now as for the people of the second or New Testament, that 2. Tim▪ 3. Hos. 1●. by dissolving the bond of the love of God, are rend asunder among themselves, walking not at all in Christ the light of faith, Joh. 1. 9 12. but like unto the Jews of old, according to their Baal-courses, Jer. 2. 11. in error Zephan 1. 2. Pet. 2. Eph▪ 4. Hos 7. 8. 12 I●r 7. Mar. 13. l. joh 1. 5. Rom. 1. 16. Heb 3. 4. 10 12. ● Cor. 4. Col. 3. or darkness of conscience, and are in such sort enticed, 2 Pet. 2. taught and seduced, Mat. 24. that there is no communion with God at all more to be found among them, according to the Gospel of Christ; and they, besides their unbelief or distrust in God, wherein they stick, so possessed, defiled or polluted with all manner of works of darkness; and so blinded therewithal, that they take no heed at all, according to the morningstar of the grace of God unto the day of the 2 Pet. 1. 1 Thess 5. Rom. 11. Psal 14. 87, ●●. Lord, the decree and judgement of God, Rev. 17. 18. in regard of the help out of Zion, Isa. 49. 52. 59 62. or the deliverance of Israel, Psal. 31, 73, 102, 130. These, I say, shall yet less be able to subsist with the Days, and Gal. 4. Isa. 29. Mar 13. jer. 8. 14. Isa. 9 48. Moons, and Fasts, and anniverssaries of their outward Church-pomp or false worship, whereby indeed they serve not God, but only sooth and flatter themselves; then the Jews did of old, for all they were the true Hos. 10. 12. people of God, and the natural branches, and had the Rom 11. promise, that God would dwell there for ever, where 1 Reg 9 Ezek. 43. he had set up the memorial of his name, Exod. 20. But the shepherds, or the learned of this present Ier▪ 2 23. 2 Tim. 4. Babel, Rev. 16. whom the people have heaped up every one to himself in his Religion, Sect or Party, 2 Pet. Zach. 10. 11 2. & were according to their own pleasure so taught, Epist. jud. jer. 5. 6. seduced, Mat. 7. 24. and scattered from God by them, Jer. 10. 12. that none doth either feel or care any more Ezek. 34. for the suffering of his neighbour or fellow-member, Rom 12. 1● Gal. 1. ●. Col 2. 3. in hearty compassion of the love of God, according to the Gospel of Christ, 1 Cor. 12. who also besides this seducing, do moreover excite and stir men up unto Psal. 10, 68, 94. Habac. 3. jam 3. 4. those self-revengefull, Heb. 10. Cainicall 1 John 3. cruel, Eph. 4. murdering and thieving wars, Rev. 16. which were begun in the world for the upholding of their outward Temple-service or false worship, and jer. 7. 8. thereby have drawn upon themselves the chiefest guilt and cause of all this ruin & destruction of mankind; 2 Thess. 2. namely, that by reason thereof one man is now become the others murder & spoil, nay death & devil together, Zeph. 3. according to the power and working of Satan; these, I Apocalyp. 20. 2 Pet 2. say, shallbe brought to their end with terror, and for all this, be the foremost that shallbe thrust into hell, or into Epist. jud. the blackness of darkness for ever. For the causes Ez●k 22. of that body and soul-murthering, which hath broke in now for such a while hitherto in the murdering den of this false Christendom was openly practised, Mat. 21. 24. Mar. 2●. 11. 13. Act. 2● joh. 1●. Hos. 4. Amos 5. by reason of such cruel ravening wolves and hirelings, and absolved or pardoned by them, Epist. Judas, they shall not only be made know● and manifest, but be revenged and judged likewise now before the end of the world, viz. before the great and terrible day of Mich. 5. jocl. 2. Mal. 4 the Lord, upon every one, according as they shall have share in the guilt and cause thereof. All such now Eezk. 21. 34. therefore as being yet incorporated or enthralled in this blood▪ drunk Babel, are desirous to eschew the fierce wrath of God, or the plagues which shall light Apoc. 18. jer. 23. 3●. upon it, by reason of the same; they must even timely go out of it, and look well unto themselves, that Isa. 13. 34. 4●. they be not partakers of the works that are practised therein, or guilty and causers of the blood of the Apoc. 6. 16. Deut 32 Isa 26. Saints and the slain that hath been shed hitherto, and of the plundering, murdering and thieving which is Nahum 3. Ier 7. Psal. 12. 80. committed therein, to the ruin of the countries and the destruction of the poor; which I do now declare, for to hate and forsake the evil, but to love the good, and to do according to it, before God do cause the Sun to go down at high noon, and the land to be Amos 5. 8. darkened in the brightest of the day, where indeed Zach. 14. 2 Cor. 4. 1 Thess 5. the light never yet did shine before in the hearts or consciences of men, Eph. 4. 5. For strong is the Lord God, who by reason of such perverse purposes of the Apoc 18. 19 children of men, will judge and exercise vengeance, Isa. 63. Mich. 5. Isa. 41. 42. A Warrior of the Lord, Isa. 1. 55. Rom. 1. Serving God in the behalf of the everlasting deliverance of Israel, according to his Counsel, Jer. 23. Right, Mic. 3. 7. Judgement and Righteousness, Psal. Dan. 7. 12. 89, 97, 119. all which the Heathens or false Christians Mat. 24. Mar 13. Isa. 9 30. do endeavour to overthrow, and bring to nothing, to the utter ruin of the poor, only to maintain their own vain, worldly and divided sectarian Religions Rom▪ 1. Hos 10. Ezek. 21. 22▪ jer. 7. 17 ●3 courses. Wherefore also God hath already kindled the fire upon them from heaven, that hitherto they were Ezek. 13. able to effect nothing else, but that over the hypocrisy and lies of the divisions of their shepherds, they Psal. 1●. are brought to ruin and destruction, like as in former times it happened with the Jews in the fearful destruction Apoc. 9 16. of Jerusalem. This same man, by whom these letters are delivered according to the power of the living God and his M●ca. 3. 7. Heb. 4. 10. Isa 42. 43. 48. jer. 4 8. 11. 14. 15 16. word, hath likewise foretold all unto them in Germany, viz. that they should not be able thus to maintain their false worship of God, but perish about the same, even as in former times it hath happened to the house of Siloh and the Jews very frequently, when as 1. Sam 4. they went about to defend or maintain themselves against Isa. 1. 8 9 30 31. 57 65▪ jer. 7. 17 21 22. 27. 28. ●. 34. 37. their enemies, without the spirit of the Lord, or, only according to their own counsels, and were destroyed upon it, Hos. 7. 8. 10. Chap. For which cause therefore, such as are yet remaining, ought rightly Ezek. 21. 2. Cor. 4. 1. Cor 15. Amos ● jer. 7 11. 15 17. 19 to open the inward eyes of conscience, and whereas now especially the fire is likewise kindled here in England upon the same ground; it behoveth the inhabitants thereof to look very well unto themselves in this regard, that they do not harden their hearts against Rom. 1. 9 1●. Mat. 13. 24 Jer. 6. Isa. 9 50. 59 God, with unrighteousness, crafty, false and wicked courses, and be made a curse thereby, or be consumed in the wrath of God one among another, in the midst of their boasting and highminded glorying of their outward Temple-religion, for the Mat. 13. Jer. 7. 48. Isa. 48. 1. Cor. 2. 1. Thess. 2. Mat. 24. Epist. Jud. Rom. 1. which the Jews likewise heretofore in their unacknowledgment have put their King to death, and crucified him, which shall also be judged yet in the Heathen or false Christians, that continue in the same blindness and hardness of heart. But as for their shepherds, false teachers and Prophets, Jer. 23. Ezek. 22. that do stir up the people to these murdering courses, and thereby are become the principal guilt Apoc. 16. 2. Thess. 2. Zeph. 3. 2. Pet. 2. Zac. 10 11. 13. Rev. 12. 16. 19 20. Isa. 63. 2. Thes. 1. 2 Pet. 3. and cause of the ruin and destruction of mankind, they shallbe thrust the foremost into hell, for the deliverance of the remnant. For there is yet another combat at hand with the Dragon, and stool of the beast and the false Prophet; by reason whereof also the day of vengeance and judgement, that shallbe made manifest like fire, hath been already denounced and declared, according to the spirit of the former Prophets, 1. Thess. through the Word of God, unto all the Kingdoms 1. Cor. 3. and Nations of whole Europe, Amos 3. 5. A Builder of Zion the New Jerusalem. Rom. 11. Zach. 12. Apoc. 21. Isa. 49. 52. 59 60 62. 65. 66.