FOraſmuch as a Proclamation is ſet forth by O.P. and his Council, in which is an oath to be profered, to be taken, of Abjuration, againſt all Popiſh ſupremacie and authority over the Catholique Church in generall: and we who are, by the World ſcornfully called Quakers, who own the Doctrine of Chriſt Jeſus, who ſaith, Swear not at all, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath; but let your yea be yea and your nay nay, leſt ye fall into condemnation: Jam. 5.12. In Chriſts Doctrine and the Apoſtles Doctrine we do abide, and oaths is denied, and forbidden: and ſo thoſe who were called Chriſtians which was in Chriſt Jeſus, who abode in his Doctrine and the Apoſtles Doctrine, ſuffered as they do now that doth the ſame: as in particular John Morland who had been a Captain, was fined and impriſoned, becauſe he could not ſwear, but kept to yea and nay in his communications, and many others fined that cannot ſwear: but with the light which comes from Chriſt Jeſus, from him by whom the World was made, we do deny and condemn, with the light, all Popiſh wayes, and their Supremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in General, root and branch ▪ and therefore many of us which are called Quakers have ſuffered and ſuffereth, and layen long impriſoned by the Popiſh law which guarded the Jeſuits, and Crucifixes and Imagess: which now guards many of the Prieſts in England and their Church, which law did guard the Jeſuits and their Church: therefore the authority of the Catholique Church in Generall, and the ſupremacy of the Popes power we do utterly deny and renounce, as knowing their works of darkneſs: and condemn them all with the light; and the branch which comes from the root: by which branch many ſuffers now in England for declaring againſt all Popiſh wayes and the authority derived from him, by which the Church was guarded, freely without an oath; for God doth us command, for we ſee the ſword of the Lord is drawn againſt it: And ſo over our ſelves in particular we cannot ſuffer any of his preheminency to bear rule, for it is an uſurped authority. So with the light of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt we are brought to declare againſt it; for with the light it is condemned, and here the power of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt is reteined: And we do know with the light which comes from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, That bread and wine is carnall; which our Lord Jeſus Chriſts body and blood is not: but is pretious, He ſaw no corruption, and is a myſtery: which is not bread and wine, let them conſecrate it never ſo: And ſo to declare to you plainly, we do denie the Sacrament, for we know there is no Scripture for it: And the Lords Supper is not carnall, where it is ſaid he will make his abode with you, and ſup with you: the Lord is not carnall: but is the myſterie and his body is glorious, and not beggerly Elements, as outward bread or wine: for this is the blood of Jeſus which waſheth away our ſin; and this is the body of Jeſus which makes us free from the law: which ſtands not in meats and in drinks and carnall Ordinances, for the body is Chriſt: and ſo we do denie and condemn all that worſhip that ſacrament of Elements of bread and wine, and that ſupper which ſtands in thoſe things: and we witnes Chriſt is come, who is the ſumme and the ſubſtance, and ſo need not have a remembrance of any Element: but we which be dead with Chriſt and live in his life, from the beggarly Elements, them that lives in them goes about to ſlay us; ſo as it is written they that are born after the fleſh perſecutes them that are born after the ſpirit: And again we do deny that there is any purgatory, and declare againſt it as knowing the blood of Jeſus which cleanſeth us from ſin, which is an holy thing; and know him who takes away our ſin and deſtroyes the works of the Devil: which many hath the bread and wine which know nothing of the body and blood of Chriſt, no more then the Jews which turned from Chriſt, when he told them, that, except they did eat his Fleſh and drink his Blood they had no life in them, and they looked upon him carnally as the Papiſts do now, which are deluded & deceived. And again with the light which comes from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, him who was not born by the will of man, him by whom the world was made, with his light do we deny and condemn all their conſecrated Hoaſt, Crucifixes, and Images, and they are not to be worſhipped but to be condemned with the light, which will let them ſee they are enemies of the Croſs of Chriſt which be in things before mentioned, and all them that worſhip them. And to you this is the word of the Lord God: the light of your conſciences ſhall witnes it: God is a Spirit and is to be worſhipped in ſpirit and in truth: and all that make Crucifixes, or Images, or worſhip them, they are the South ſayers and familiar ſpirits: the Founder of the Images and the worſhipper of the Image, from the living God is confounded, accurſed, and with the light condemned, and God worſhipped in the ſpirit: which ſpirit judges all Images, and Image-makers, & ſees there is no due worſhip to them, or them that makes them, but condemnation and judgment: the light in the conſcience ſhall it witnes: And again we declare againſt the Papiſts, and them which ſay Salvation is to be merited by works: for then it is not of faith, in him who was not born by the will of man, which light condemns mans runnings and willings, and that which he call merits, there is no ſuch Scripture: and therefore we denie the word merit & know that man doth not attain any thing by his wil, of him who was not born by the wil of man; for he knows him not, for he is a myſterie, which light condemns all works of darknes and all evill, ſinne, and unrighteouſneſs, and all them which acts it: and who are in Chriſt are new Creatures: and to them there is no condemnation, who walk not after the fleſh but after the ſpirit: ſo every one ſhall have a reward according to his works whether they be good or evill. And with the light, which comes from Chriſt Jeſus, which never changes, all points and Doctrines of Papiſts and the World, is condemned, and them who do affirm them: And the ſame light is the condemnation of them that takes oaths, out of Chriſts Doctrine and from Chriſt Jeſus, and ſo knows not his will, who abides not in his Doctrine: So as Gods children have found his power and ſtrength which hath carried them on, when he hath commanded them to declare againſt all falſe wayes, falſe Teachers, and Popiſh wayes, and Popiſh lawes, and often have been almoſt murthered, but the Lord hath been their preſent help in time of need, and trouble. And ſo Popiſh wayes are renounced without any equivocation, mentall reſervation, or ſecret evaſion whatſoever: So we cannot go out of Chriſts Doctrine and ſwear by any oath: for if we do, we break the command of Chriſt and go out of his Doctrine, and the Apoſtles which ſaid, Swear not at all: They that ſay, ſo help me God, and act contrary to the light which comes from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, are with the light condemned from God, and are in another Doctrine: but who be in the light of Chriſt Jeſus, have Gods help. And ſo all ſuch as uſe their tongues and make a trade of the Scriptures, which were ſpoken forth from the Spirit of the Lord, they are judged and denyed, and turned away from, though they have the form of Godlines and not the power, but denies it. And ſuch by ſuch are the dear children of God caſt in priſon, who are the cauſe of it. And again in the preſence of the Lord God, we declare againſt all Popiſh wayes, and the Prieſts, and their church: and their autority, and all that belong to it, the root, and ground, and branches: and with the light do ſee them, and all who have any of their power, to be condemned with the light: And to you this is the word of the Lord God, and all who wait in the light which comes from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, receives power from him which is the Head and governs his Church which is the Head of it; which Light is the condemnation of the changeable Prieſthood. And with the light we ſee all Papiſts, and who be in the Popery, to be enemies of the Croſſe of Chriſt, and ſo imitate a croſs, ſome this way, ſome that way, who are all with the light to be condemned. And to you this is the word of the Lord God. I am the light of the World and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, ſaith Chriſt. And if you do love the light which comes from Chriſt and receive Chriſt ye ſhall receive the light of life: and as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the ſons of God, which are the children of light and do beleeve in the light. But ye that do hate the light, and will not bring your deeds to the light, becauſe your deeds be evill, and the light will reprove you; this is your condemnation, the light, ſaith Chriſt: ſo here is your Teacher, if you love the light, and here is your condemnation that hate the light, the Light. And remember that you are warned in your life time. And if you do love the light which comes from Chriſt it will lead you to the Church, which is in God, 1 Theff. 1.1. And bring you to teſtifie againſt the World, that the works thereof are evill: and will let you ſee that the whole world lyes in wickednes: And it will let you ſee that the Scriptures which were declared from the light, and life; they that was in it, was in unity: and all the ſects are mong them that have the good words, and lives in their meanings, and thinkings, and ſtrife, contention, and perſecution; and be ſuch that hate the light, whoſe deeds be evil which Chriſt teſtified againſt, which be ſtrangers from the life of God and Chriſt Jeſus, the Covenant of promiſe: and ſo all ſuch are with the light comprehended, ſeen, fathomed, judged, and condemned. The light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World, is my witnes:
Foraſmuch as the enemies of God in all ages, have gone about to ſlander the Truth of God, and to caſt reproaches upon righteous ſervants, whom he ſent forth to bear witneſſe for the Truth againſt all the unrighteouſnes of men without reſpect of perſons: So now alſo the enemies of Chriſt Jeſus, and of his righteous ſeed, (ſhewing themſelves to be of the ſame generation of their fore-fathers, which ever perſecuted the righteous ſeed, which ſhewed before of the coming of the juſt one, Act. 7.52) labour by all means to render the truth odious, and to ſlander, and reproach the people of God, by them ſcornfully called Quakers, fulfilling the word of Chriſt, Matth. 5.11. which ſaith, They ſhall ſay all manner of evil againſt you falſly for my ſake; and crying out to the Magiſtrates, as the multitude of the Jews did againſt Paul, that they ought not to live any longer: Act. 25.25. Act. 22.22. And as the chief Prieſts and Elders, and all the Councel ſought falſe witneſſes againſt Jeſus to put him to death, but found none, Matth. 26.59, 60. even ſo do they now. The high Prieſts of this age with the multitude of the ungodly, who go about to accuſe the people of God called Quakers (to be Jeſuits, Fryars, Popiſh-Prieſts, Romiſh Frogs, Morriſdancers, and perſons Popiſhly affected) to the Magiſtrates, as appears by an Information given to the Magiſtrates at Briſtol: and by Books, or Pamphlets put ſorth in Print by William Prinn, and others; and one Thomas Andrews Prieſt at Welling burrough in Northamptonſhire, who accuſed one John Whitehead, who by him and the World is called a Quaker, to one Thomas Pentloe called Juſtice, and cauſed nim to be carried before the ſaid Thomas Pentloe, the 15 day of the firſt moneth called March now laſt paſt; who after he had examined him ſaid, if he would go home to his wife; and abide with her, and go towards her the next morning, he ſhould have his liberty. To whom the ſaid John Whitehead anſwered, he ſtood not in his own will, but in the will of God, and could make no ſuch promiſe, not knowing what the morning would bring forth. Whereupon the ſaid Thomus Pentloe gave the Conſtables, charge over him till further Order, who kept him in their cuſtody two nights and a day, (which was, and is contrary to the Laws of the Nation) And then when he was carried again before the ſaid Pentloe, and one John Brown, called a Juſtice, with whom was the ſaid Andrews and another Prieſt, who asked John Whitehead many queſtions laboring to enſnare him; but they not finding him to have broken, or tranſgreſſed any known Law of the Nation, then they conſulted together, as the Preſidents and Princes did againſt Daniel, to finde an occaſion againſt him, concerning the Law of God, Daniel. 6. and one Marmaduke Storre another of the People, by them called Quakers, who came to viſite his brother, who was formerly by the ſaid Pentloe ſent to priſon at Northampton: And thereupon the ſaid Pentloe and Brown tendered to them the oath of Abjuration: appointed for ſuch as are ſuſpected to be Popiſhly affected, but their ſouls being ſubject to the Commands of Chriſt Jeſus not only becauſe of wrath but alſo for conſcience ſake, who ſaith: Matth. 5.34. Swear not at all, but let your communication be yea yea, nay nay; for whatſoever is more then theſe cometh of evil, v. 37. And the Apoſtle James ſaith: But above all things my brethren ſwear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, leaſt ye fall into condemnation, were made to deny to ſwear at all: But did in the preſence of the Lord, renounce al things in the form of the ſaid oath named before the ſaid called Juſtices: who notwithſtanding did thereupon require them to find ſuerties to be of the good behaviour: and to appear at the next Seſſions: then the ſaid John, and Marmaduke did deſire them to read a law that they had tranſgreſſed: or to ſhew them wherein they had broken the peace or good behaviour: but the ſaid called Juſtice did refuſe; and ſaid they was Judges, and did judge it to be ſo: then the ſaid John and Marmaduke told them they ought to Judge them according to the law: and if they would not read them a law: that they might be convinced by it to be of evil behaviour, they would not find ſureties: wherupon thy ſent them to priſon at Northampton, where they yet remain priſoners, though the breach of no known law can be juſtly laid to their charge: thus they and many others who in faithfulneſs ſerved the late Parliament and hazarded their lives, and ſuffered the plundering of their Goods, in expectation to have had righteouſneſs ſet up, and all oppreſſers and oppreſſions removed and taken forth of the way, as was then largely promiſed: But behold, nothing is brought forth but winde there is not any deliverance wrought in the earth, neither have the inhabitants of the World faln: for they that depart from evil are made a prey to this generation of Prieſts, and Magiſtrates who perſecute the innocent and impriſon them that in obedience to the commands of Chriſt Jeſus, dare not ſwear at all: do ye thus requite the Lord, ch fooliſh people and unwiſe? who ſeek after the life of the righteous, and daily lay ſnares for the innocent: and ſay in your hearts who who ſhall ſee you: underſtand ye brutiſh among the people, and ye fools when will ye be wiſe, he that planted the ear ſhall he not hear, he that formed the eye ſhal he not ſee, he that chaſtiſeth the Heathen ſhall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, ſhall he not know?, yea, the Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity, Pſal. 94.8, 9, 10, 11. Therefore ceaſe from your perſecution of the children of God and from your wicked inventions, and ſnares which you make to enſnare the ſimple by, whom you in ſcorn and deriſion call Quakers, and Jeſuits, and Fryers, and Popiſh prieſts, and many other ſuch like names of reproach you caſt upon them: But they who you call Quakers in the preſence of the living God of Heaven and Earth do you who are reproachers with all your reproachfull names deny; and the Pope, and his ſupremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in general, and over every one of themſelves in particuler: And do beleeve and know that there is not any Tranſubſtantiation in the called Sacrament of the Lords Supper: or in the Elements of bread and wine after conſecration thereof by any Perſon whatſoever: And they, and every of them the people of God called Quakers, do believe and know that there is not any Purgatory: And that the conſecrated Hoaſt Crucifixes or Images ought not to be worſhipped, neither that any worſhips is due to any of them; And they, and every of them alſo beleeve, and know that ſalvation cannot be merited by works: and all Doctrines in affirmation of the ſaid points they and every of them, we do renounce and bear witnes againſt. And do deny all equivocation, mentall reſervation, and ſecret evaſion whatſoever, ſpeaking the words of Truth in plaineſs by the help of God: And for ſo doing they are perſecuted, ſtoned, ſtocked, mocked, reproached, and impriſoned by thoſe who cannot endure plaineſs of ſpeech: who are equivocaters, mentall reſervers, and ſecret evaders: who cannot receive the words of Truth, the yea and the nay in their communications: but contrary to the commands of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, to whom every knee muſt bow, labour to bring people out of his doctrine: and ſo into the condemnation of the Devill: but the Righteouſneſſe of the perfect ſhall direct his way: when the wicked ſhall fall by his own wickedneſs, Prov. 11.5.
A word and a warning to all people, whether Prieſts, Magiſtrates, or others who are plotting in ſecret againſt the innocent, with the children of light you are ſeen, and comprehended, and with the light of Chriſt Jeſus in every one of you I ſpeak, which is my witnes, and your condemnation that acts contrary to it; Take warning in time, leaſt you ſay you had time when it is paſt. And remember you are once more warned, in your life time.
Whether ſuch be not obſervers of dayes? and whether the Croſs be not to the ſeat of luſt and envie; and to that minde which makes outward Croſſes, Likeneſſes, and Images: which are to periſh and turn to duſt yea or nay; whether outward croſſes, likeneſſes, and Images and obſerving meats and dayes be not of the World; yea or nay: and whether that nature, which holds them up be not of the world, yea or nay?
Theſe Queries are to all the Prieſts in England that are guarded with a Popiſh Law, which guarded the Jeſuites; and to be ſent to the Popiſh Prieſts, the Jeſuits, and to the Pope at Rome, to be anſwered by them in writing, and the anſwer to be returned to thoſe people who are de•piſed with all Sects, who are ſcornfully called Quakers in England, at London
And we do deny the making the likeneſs of any thing that is in Heaven or in the earth, or in the waters; for the Lord our God forbids it: and furthermore, he ſaith, Thou ſhalt not bow down to them. God ſaith Deut. 4. That thou ſhalt not make the likeneſs of any beaſt that is on the earth; nor the likeneſs of any feathered fowl that flyes in the aire, and God ſaith, thou ſhall not make the likeneſs of any thing that creeps upon the earth, leaſt thou lifteſt up thy eyes to Heaven and thou ſeeſt the Sun, Moon and Stars, the Hoaſt of Heaven thou be driven to worſhip them; and God ſaith, corrupt not your ſelves with making any graven Image, or repreſentation of any figure, whether it be the likeneſs of male and female; and the Lord God ſaith rake heed to your ſelves, leſt you forget the Covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you; & leaſt you make any graven Image or the likens of any thing, as the Lord thy God hath charged thee; and if ye corrupt your ſelves, and make any graven image, I call Heaven and earth to record againſt you this day, that ye ſhall ſhortly periſh from the land, v. 26. And the Lord God ſaith in Deut. 5. Thou ſhalt not make any graven image of any thing in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. For thus ſaith the Lord, ye ſhall deal with them, ye ſhall overthrow their altars, and break down their pillars, cut down their groves, and burn their images with fire; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God hath choſen thee to be a ſpecial people to himſelf above all people that be upon the face of the earth. The graven images was to be burnt with fire, for they was the curſed thing from God, and God drave out the nations from before his people which made images, which his people was not; for the Heathen did ſo make likeneſſes whom the Lord ſpewed forth of the Land, which defiled it with their likneſſes and images. Baal had images, 2 Kin. 3. And the Lord ſaid put away the images, and break down the images of Baal; and in 2 Chron. there you may read of the image work, and the graved image the idoll, 2 Chron. 33.7. and Pſal. 73. When thou wakeſt, O Lord, and raiſeſt us up, thou ſhalt make their images deſpiſed; and the Lord hath awaked, and hath raiſed us up, and their images are deſpiſed, and ſo, confounded be all they that worſhip graven images, and in the Pſalms you may read how they worſhipped molten images, Pſal. 106. And Nebuchadnezzar made a great image, and them that would not worſhip his image, was to be thrown into the fiery furnace, and the worſhipers of God would not worſhip his golden image, Dan. 3. and in the Revel, ye may ſee that they that do worſhip the Beaſt and his image ſhall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, and ſhall be tormented with fire and brimſtone before the holy Angels, and before the holy Lamb. And the ſervants of God ſong which had got the victory over the image and the beaſt, Rev. 15. and the children of Iſrael ſhall remain without an image, and they ſhall ſeek David their King, Hoſ. 3. And Rom. 1. ye may ſee how they turned the glory of the incorruptible God into the ſimilitude of the image of a corrupt man, and of birds, and of four footed beaſts, and creeping things; ſuch God gave up to hardneſs of heart, and they turned the truth of God into a lye ſuch their minds was reprobated and fil'd with unrighteouſs and deceit, taking all things in the evil, and theſe were and are the image-makers: and ye may read in the Acts, they of Epheſus were worſhipers of images which the Apoſtle witneſſed againſt, Act. 18. And though the Lord did command the children of Iſrael they ſhould not make an image, yet they made a molten image which Moſes ſtampt to peeces, and burnt with fire, and the Lord was angry with them; they turned from his counſel, Deut. 9. And in Judg. 17. there ye may read and ſee the molten images; and in Judg. 18. ye may read of Michaels image, and the molten image, and how they ſet up Idolatry, and the Lord ſent Jeremiah to tell them the founder of the graven image is confounded, for his melting is but falſhood, for there is no breath in them, they are vanity, the works of errors, in the time of viſitation they ſhall periſh; and Jacobs portion is not like unto them, he is the maker of all things. Iſrael is the rod of his inheritance, the Lord of Hoaſts is his name. Laban had images who would have wronged Jacob, Gen. 31. The Lord ſaith, Exod. 23. thou ſhalt utterly overthrow and break down their images. And in Exodus, The Lord ſaith, they ſhall break in peeces their images. And the Lord ſaith, I will deſtroy your high places, and cut away your images, and caſt your carcaſſes upon the bodies of your idols, and my ſoul abhors you, Levit. 26.30. Num. 39. The Lord ſaith, ye ſhall deſtroy all their pictures, and break aſunder all their images of mettal, and pluck down all their high places: and in 1 Sam. 6. there ye may read the Philiſtines, Prieſts, and South-ſayers and their images, and ſimiitudes of Mice, which deſtroyed the land, verſ. 11. And ye may read how David burnt the Philiſtines Images, 2 Pſal. and Jeroboam which was not as the ſervant of God, as David was, but he did evil in the ſight of God, and made molten immages to provoke God; and therefore, ſaith the Lord, I will bring evil upon Jeroboams houſe, and cut them off. And ye may read how they went into Baals houſe and deſtroyed it, and his images and their altars; and the children of Iſrael did not that which was not upright before the Lord their God, and made images, as thoſe that profeſs themſelves Chriſtans do now, and theſe angryed the Lord, 2 King. 17. and made molten images and calves, and ſo worſhipped the Hoaſt of Heaven, and ſerved Baal; therefore the Lord was exceeding wrath with them; and he ſaid break down their images, 2 King. 18. and he brake their images in peeces, 2 King. 23. And Joſiah took away their familiar ſpirits, and South-ſayers and images, and idols, and Aſa deſtroyed the idolatry, and commanded Juda to ſeek God; he break down the images and altars of the ſtrange idols, and the images thereof, and the kingdom was quiet before him, 2 Chron. 14. And the people of God went and deſtroyed the houſe of Baal, and his image, 2 Chr. 23. And you may ſee how Ahaz did not upright in the ſight of the Lord like David his father, but he made molten images, and provoked the Lord to anger, 2 Chron. 28. And you may read how Juda brake down the images, and cut down the Groves, 2 Chron. 31. And how Amon ſacrificed to the images which Manaſſes his father had made, which did evil in the ſight of God; and Joſiah did upright in the ſight of God, he began to purge Juda and Jeruſalem from their groves and high places, and carved images, and molten images, and ſtamped them to powder, and cut down their images, 2 Chron. 34. and the Lord ſent Iſaiah to cry out againſt their images; which their fingers had made and ſaid they had forgotten God, Iſaiah 17. and he ſaith, the graven images may not ſtand, Iſa. 27. and he ſaid the image of ſilver and of gold ſhould be caſt away as a monſtrous City; the ornaments and the covering; Iſa. 9. And behold, ſaith he, they are all nothing, their images are wind and confuſion, Iſa. 41. and the Lord ſent Jeremiah to cry againſt their images of Bethel that is in the land of Egypt, and ſaid they ſhould be burnt and the houſe of their Gods, Jer. 43. and the Lord ſent Ezekiel, to cry againſt their images, who ſaid your images of the Sun ſhould be broken: I will caſt down your ſlain men before your idols and your images of the Sun ſhall be cut in peeces, and your works ſhall be aboliſhed, and ye ſhall know that I am the Lord, the ſlain ſhall fall in the midſt of you: And the Lord turned his face from them that made images, Ezek. 7. And the Lord ſaid thou tookeſt gold and ſilver and made the images of men; wo, wo, unto thee ſaith the Lord, Ezek. 16. And the King of Baal conſulted with Images, Ezek. 21. and there ye may ſee in what generations the Images were, and who turned from God, turned from the Images, and Jeruſalem and Samaria painted upon the walls, the Images of the Chaldeans painted with Verinilion, and ſo diſcovered their fornication from the Lord; and the Lord ſaid, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hateſt; and thy ſhame and thy fornication ſhall be diſcovered: do not you all people paint upon the wall Images of other people, though not of the Chaldeans, and doth not this manifeſt your whordom: or will you ſay you are delivered to do theſe abhominations, Ezek. 23. and the Lord ſaith, I will deſtroy their Images, and cauſe their Idols to ceaſe, Ezek. 30. and Amos was ſent to cry againſt their Images, and their Gods, Amos 2.5. and the Lord ſent Micab to cry that he would cut down the Images in the midſt of them, Mich. 5. and the Lord ſent Hoſ. to cry againſt the Images, how they made them fair, and now they ſin more and more, they have made them molten Images of their ſilver, and Idols, according to their underſtanding, and they are all the works of craftsmen; he ſhall break down their images, Hoſ. 10.3. declare among the Nations, and publiſh it; ſet up a ſtandard and proclaim it, and conceal it not, Babel is taken; Bell is confounded, Meredoch is broken down, her idols are confounded, and their images are burſt in peeces.
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