YE have not the Word of my Father abiding in Joh. 5. you, said Christ unto the Jewes; and indeed he should now amongst the Heathens or false Rom. 1. 11. Mat. 7. 21, 24. Isa. 5. 55, 56. Epist. Jude 2 Pet. 3. John 12. Dan. 2. 1 Pet. 2. Rom. 9. Isa. 8. 28, 66. Christians finde much lesse fruitfull in this kinde, wherefore also this world in their owne 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 breake 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 indure 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 Jewes 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.

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, setled for that purpose, were 2 Paralyp. 7. instituted onely 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 Ioh. 13. 1. Ioh. 3. Gal. 5. Eph. 1. 5. member still of the Congregation wherof Je­sus Christ is the Head, Col. 1. should feel or partici­pate of the suffering of his neighbour or fellow­member, 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. darknesse, translated into the heavenly being, and dearly redeemed through the bloud of the Sonne of 1. Pet. 1. God, 1 Cor. 6. 7. might walk circumspectly, Eph. 4. Isa. 28. Ier. 23. and know before all things how to frame their do­ings according to the counsell or will of God, Mat. 7.

But when the people of the Jewes 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 commandements, rites and rights of the Law of Moses; nor held it worthy, to bring the fruits of the Kingdome 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. [...]. [Page 2] 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. Ioh. 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 blindnesse and hard heartednesse 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 mens 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. Ier. 5. 1. Pet 4. Rom. 14. 2 Cor. 5. or according to their own lusts and crafty devices, Epist. Jude. 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 rent 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 er­rour Zephan 1. 2. Pet. 2. Eph▪ 4. Hos 7. 8. 12 I [...]r 7. Mar. 13. l. Ioh 1. 5. Rom. 1. 16. Heb 3. 4. 10 12. [...] Cor. 4. Col. 3. or darknesse of conscience, and are in such sort in­ticed, 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 Gospell 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 darknesse; and so blinded there­withall, that they take no heed at all, according to the morning-star 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 judgment of God, Rev. 17. 18. in regard of the help out of Zion, Isa. 49. 52. 59. 62. or the [Page 3] deliverance of Israel, Psal. 31, 73, 102, 130. These, I say, shall yet lesse be able to subsist with the Dayes, and Gal. 4. Isa. 29. Mar 13. Ier. 8. 14. Isa. 9. 48. Moons, and Fasts, and anniversaries of their outward Church-pomp or false worship, whereby indeed they serve not God, but onely sooth and flatter themselves; then the Jews did of old, for all they were the true Hos. 10. 12. people of God, and the naturall 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 memoriall of his name, Exod. 20.

But the shepheards, or the learned of this present Ier▪ 2 23. 2 Tim. 4. Babel, Rev. 16. whom the people have heaped up eve­ry one to himselfe in his Religion, Sect or Party, 2 Pet. Zach. 10. 11 2. & were according to their own pleasure so taught, Epist. Iud. Ier. 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 Gospell of Christ, 1 Cor. 12. who also besides this seducing, do moreover excite and stir men up un­to Psal. 10, 68, 94. Habac. 3. Iam 3. 4. those self-revengefull, Heb. 10. Cainicall 1 John 3. cruell, Eph. 4. murthering and theeving wars, Rev. 16. which were begun in the world for the upholding of their outward Temple-service or false worship, and Ier. 7. 8. therby have drawn upon themselves the chiefest guilt and cause of all this ruine & destruction of mankinde; 2 Thess. 2. namely, that by reason therof 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, shalbe brought to their end with terror, and for all this, be the foremost that shalbe thrust into hell, or in­to Epist. Iud. the blacknesse of darknesse for ever. For the causes Ez [...]k 22. [Page 4] of that body and soul-murthering, which hath broke in now for such a while hitherto in the murdering den of this false Christendome was openly practiced, Mat. 21. 24. Mar. 2 [...]. 11. 13. Act. 2 [...] Ioh. 1 [...]. Hos. 4. Amos 5. by reason of such cruell ravening wolves and hire­lings, and absolved or pardoned by them, Epist. Jude, 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. Iocl. 2. Mal. 4 the Lord, upon every one, according as they shal have share in the guilt and cause thereof. All such now Eezk. 21. 34. therefore as being yet incorporated or inthralled in this bloud▪drunk Babell, are desirous to eschew the fierce wrath of God, or the plagues which shall light Apoc. 18. Ier. 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 bloud of the Apoc. 6. 16. Deut 32 Isa 26. Saints and the slain that hath been shed hitherto, and of the plundering, murdering and theeving which is Nahum 3. Ier 7. Psal. 12. 80. committed therein, to the ruine of the countreys and the destruction of the poor; which I do now declare, for to hate and forsake the evill, but to love the good, and to do according to it, before God do cause the Sun to go down at high noone, 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.

Serving God in the behalf of the everlasting de­liverance of Israel, according to his Counsell, Jer. 23. Right, Mic. 3. 7. Judgment and Righteousnesse, 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 ruine of the poore, onely to maintain their own vain, worldly and divided sectarian Religions Rom▪ 1. Hos 10. Ezek. 21. 22▪ Ier. 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 hypocri­sie and lies of the divisions of their shepheards, they Psal. 1 [...]. are brought to ruine and destruction, like as in former times it happened with the Jewes in the fearfull 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. Ier. 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 maintaine themselves a­gainst Isa. 1. 8 9. 30 31. 57. 65▪ Ier. 7. 17 21 22. 27. 28. [...]. 34. 37. their enemies, without the spirit of the Lord, or, onely according to their owne counsells, and were destroyed upon it, Hos. 7. 8. 10. Chap. For which cause therfore, such as are yet remaning, ought rightly Ezek. 21. 2. Cor. 4. 1. Cor 15. Amos [...] Ier. 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 [Page 6] 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 unrighteousnesse, 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 high-minded 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 Jewes 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 blindnesse and hardnesse of heart.

But as for their shepheards, false teachers and Pro­phets, Jer. 23. Ezek. 22. that do stir up the people to these murdering courses, and thereby are become the principall 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 ruine and destruction of mankinde, they shalbe thrust the foremost into hell, for the deli­verance of the remnant. For there is yet another com­bate at hand with the Dragon, and stoole of the beast and the false Prophet; by reason whereof also the day of vengeance and judgment, that shalbe 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 Kingdomes 1. Cor. 3. and Nations of whole Europe, Amos 3. 5.