Edward Elwall

“ O Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy Judgments; hasten the Time, I pray thee, when thou wilt magnify thy Law, and make it honourable; when the Kings of the Earth shall hate the Whore, and loath her Abominable Inventions, and all her filthy Fornications. ”

“ O thou pure and perfect Being, thou only living and true God, who gavest me my Breath, and art free to take it again, when, and where, and how thou pleasest, I pray thee Take away the Fear of Man from my Heart, who can only kill my Body. and let me learn of thy Son Jesus Christ, to fear thee and the God of all flesh, who alone canst kill both Body and Soul. ”

“ When Men shall preach with a single Eye, and a pure Desire to advance the Kingdom of Christ, and to bring their Fellow-Creatures into it, and freely give those Spiritual Things, they freely received, without Money, and without Price; Then it will be truly said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen! and all Prelates and Priests, of all Sorts, with all their absurd Doctrines, and cruel Persecutions, will all tumble down to the Ground, and fall like a Millstone into the Sea. ”

“ Let no Man violate the plain, open, clear Sense of his Words, for no other Gods but Me doth evidently exclude any other Person but He.
Our Saviour Jesus Christ bears the same Testimony; for when one asked him which was the first or great Commandment of all, he made the very same Comment upon it, as good old faithful Moses had done before, viz. "hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, is one Lord." Mark 12, 29, and 32. "and the Scribe said unto him, well Master, thou has said the Truth: For there is One God, and there is none other but He." ”

“ Thou that hast slain so many faithful followers of the Lamb, tell me where any of God's servants and People of Old, did ever pray to Abel, or to Enoch, or to Noah, or to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, or to Gods faithful Servant Moses, or any of the Prophets? Did ever any one of Gods own peculiar People pray to any one of them? ”

“ What greater Absurdity can there be in the World, than to say, That the most High God, the First Cause or Prime Being of all Things, is a Duality, Trinity, or Quaternity of Persons, when both Natural and Revealed Religion tells us, There is but One God, and there is no other but He. ”

“ But all those honest, pious Souls, who love the Living God, they will have their Eyes up to the Most High, and to his Prophets, and to Christ and his Apostles, to seek for a Divine Command, in all things that concern their Faith and Salvation, their Worship, or whatever relates to their future State: And as to any Inventions of Men, in matters of Religion, whether Kings or Popes, Prelates or Priests, of any Sort, have nothing to do with them, nor any of the Creed-Makers. ”

“ In short, how can it chuse but affect the Heart of a pious Man, to see Men prefer their own vain Inventions in Religion, before the sacred commandments of God Almighty.
How often has my Soul been deeply concern'd with Sorrow, when I consider how many persons go to the Steeple-Houses, and there hear their Priest say over the Fourth Commandment, viz. Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy, Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy Work, but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. ”

“ By which it is evident, they own it to be the Law of God, or else, Why do they pray him to incline their Hearts to keep it? And yet, at the same time, there is nothing more certain, than that they never intend to keep it, or obey it. ”

“ Let all good People take particular Notice, how God is displeased with all them, whose Fear toward him, is taught by the Precepts of Men: That is, as our Lord words it, All such as teach for Doctrines, the Commandments of Men. ”

“ O that thy People may come out of the Mystery of Babylon, that they be not partakers of her Sins, and that they receive not of her Plagues, for her Sins have reached unto Heaven, and God will remember her Iniquities. ”

“ It is a Contradiction in the Nature of Things to suppose it; for the Israelites might well say Moses was God, which not One Israelite did ever yet affirm, though he was so favoured of God, and beloved by all good Men, that it is said, There arose not such a Prophet in Israel, whom the Lord knew Face to face ”

“ But in all things that are of a temporal Nature, and do concern our Civil State, Worldly Political Government, be sure to be subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake; and faithfully obey every Magistrate, from the king upon the Throne, down to the meanest Constable in the Land. ”