OH how have you dishonoured the Truth ! Oh how have you dishonoured the Name of God! Oh how have you made the Gospel chargable ! Oh how have you lost the Glory ! your glory is made void : Oh how have you dispised the Cross of Christ ! and gloryed in your shame , and served not the Lord Jesus Christ , but your own bellies : Oh how long have ye made a trade of the Prophets , Apostles , and Saints words ! for which many suffer that be in the life by you , and are Stockt , and Whipt , Banished , and Imprisoned : Oh how have you made a trade of these words ; and Whipt , and Persecuted , Prisoned , and Scoft , and Mockt , and Reproached the Elect of God , the Saints , such as be in the Spirit of God that gave forth Scriptures ! Oh ye Professors ! professing Magistrates and Teachers , where is truth now to be found in your Goals , in your houses of Correction , in your stocks , there 's the place now for people to look for truth . For the Ministers of unrighteousness , that serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies , that teach for filthy lucre : And the Professing Magistrates that they ride upon , will not let Truth have any place among them , except it be in their Goals , houses of Correction , Stocks , or Prisons . Oh shameless men ! what havock have you made of the Saints goods ? what spoyling of them ? But now Jobs patience comes to be known . What Wolves do you appear in the sheeps cloathing , ravening , worrying , and tearing , in whole families , such as ye do no work for . A right Wolf ; let your Goals and the Prisons in the Countryes make them manifest . Yet do you pretend to teach people to keep Lectures up and down to blind people , to blind the Country : Think ye not that they see them , that if the Country people did not put into the mouths , and the Magistrates give the maintenance , and dinners at your Lectures ; that ye would be a company of Dumb Shepheards , like them that Isaiah speaks of . Will you bark without they give you any Augmentations , your Easter Recconings , Tith Pigs , and Geese , Hay , &c. and Gleab lands . Nay , will you sing without mony , pray without mony ? you make trades of the Saints words , Prophets words , by the hower-glass , that is your measure , and when the glass is run , tyme is spent Neighbours . Is it not the light makes all these things manifest ? and the day come that you cannot be hid ? And that all your Preaching , and all your fair words , and fair speeches . Your actions make you to stink in the Country , plundering people you do no work for ; as bad as ever the Caviliers , or rather worse , for they did but take their goods away ; and you pretend for a worship and cast into the prison besides . You be them that serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but your own bellies , for if you served Christ , he would teach you no such Doctrine , no such practices . Therefore , Oh ye wells without water , Cloudes without raine , ye wandring Stars ; for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness . The spoyling of the Saints goods , the casting men into prison cannot separate them from the Lord Jesus Christ , nor the Powers , nor the Principallities : for all are the Ministers of unrighteousness , that rob for their bellies , & plunders , and steals , and takes of them that hears them not . Oh wee and misery is your Condition , and lamentable is your state , ye shall come to wish it had been better ye had never been born , and ye had better a lived without this making a spoyle of the people of Gods goods , for it will sinck you all : Was not the Pope the first Author of Goals and Prisons ? is not He your example ? was not He the first author of Tithes , Easter-reckonings , and Midsummer-dues ! He the first Author of making a trade of the Scriptures , and killing the Saints , and making a trade of their words But the Lord God is come who will be avenged of you . Oh you Shepheards ! howling must come among you , and principal of the flock , you have made a prey upon the people , ye Divine to them for mony , ye have taught to them for filthy lucre , you have born Rule among them for means : ye preach to them while they put into your months , ye preach to them for the fleece in the cloudy dark day , night of Apostacy , since the Apostles dayes , your tents are wicked , your habitations is darknesse , the fruits appear , the Goals may witnesse , your Vineyards are Wildernesses , lye like a wildernesse , a howling wildernesse , your trees are corrupt , your bottles are fu●l of the old wine , which burst with the new , your candle is put out , therefore ye cannot believe in the Light , that enlightens every man that commeth into the world , your darknesse cannot comprehend it : the day of many of your visitation will be over , the Sun over you set , and you shall be confounded , and your wisdom shall be turned backward ; and you cannot deceive people much longer , your folly is made manifest , ye make it manifest to all men ; your cruelty , your hard heartedness , your unmercifulness , your spoyling the Saints goods , who quite live without the fear of God , as if you had never heard talk of God , Christ , the Church , the Prophets , Apostles of Christ Jesus the Son of God , for they are not your examples ; But such as be out of the Truth . Therefore such as teach for filthy Lucre , for the fleece for means , for the gain from their Quarters , that Divine for mony , such never served the people of God ; but the people of God cryed against , that lived in his fear , But they served Covetousness , they served Persecutors , and earthly minded ones , that lives in transgression , out of the Power of God . Therefore , you that feel after the Lord God come out from among them , least you be partakers of their plagues ; for now their feigned humility , self-righteousness , will-worship , will not serve their own turns , their will-preaching , their will-professing the Saints words , ( which comes not by the will of man ) which they preach for their eartly ends , which was not the practice of those who were in the will of God . But freely they had received , freely they gave : such served the Lord Jesus Christ , but such as served not the Lord Jesus Christ Preached not freely , Preached for filthy lucre , ( the Saints words ) that was Covetous ; but such as served Christ , received freely , spake freely , taught freely . Therefore all ye blind guides , ye blind leaders , ye blind watchmen , whose deeds are not wrought in God , who hate the light , and will not come to it , because your deeds be evill , and you love the Durkness rather than the Light , whose works of darknesse break open , and cannot be hid ; who would keep all people from the Light , and hate it as your selves ; and so to keep them blind , that they should not see , like the Pharises , shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men , would not go in themselves , nor suffer others , and so would keep people from the Light which Christ hath enlightned them withall , that they should not see your deeds . But that is your Condemnation that hate it , and love the Darknesse rather , and will not come to it because it will reprove them . In that the Saints walk over your heads , which condemns you in that they have unity , in the Light which brings to the Day , by which all your fruits be made manifest , and seen , Praises and Glory to the Lord God for ever , in which the Saints have Unity , and can sing Hallalujah , the Lord Omnipotent reigns , in the light he is seen . Away with your Formal Preaching , Singing , Sprinkling , and Sacraments , away with your Luke-warmness , Professors , and Teachers , who have long served God , and Christ with your lips , but your hearts far from him . Away with your Traditions of men , and rudiments of the world , and Commandements , and Doctrines of men . Away with your worldly Church , Old Masse Houses , the Church is in God , Thessalonians the 1. away with your Singing , Preaching , and Praying for mony , by the howerglass . Away with your seigned Humility , will-Worship , Hypocritical Speaking , and Teaching . The Lord Gods Indignation is kindled against you , all Professors , and Teachers , of the Saints , Prophets , Apostles , and Sons words , out of the life are ye found , that will prison to death for your bellies . Is this the end of your Religion ▪ Is this the end of your Profession , Church , and Ministry● do's it all end for that which is for the mouth , and you● bellies ? and will not let truth live amongst you , but in your Goals : would ye root the Name of the Saints out of the Earth , and not let an example live amongst you , that follow the Apostles , and Christ Jesus Doctrine . But Truth is risen which comprehends the world , and was before it was : which all the Devils Instruments , and he cannot get down , but destroyes Him , and h●● workes .