nothing else but the want of christianity all ever the christian world; and stands upon ne better a foundation of righteousness and goodness, than one murdering knave killing another, that would have killed him.

But to know whether christianity wants, or admits of war, christianity is to be considered as in its right state. Now the true state of the world termed christian, is thus described by the great gospel-prophet, who shewed what a change it was to make in the fallen state of the world. It shall come to pass, saith he, in the last days, that is, in the days of Christendom, that the moun tain of the Lord's house (his established kingdom) shall be established in the top of the mountains, and all nations shall flow into it: and many people shall say, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord's house, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. Isaiah ii. 2. 3.

Now what follows from this going up of the nations to the mountain of the Lord's house, from his teaching them of his ways, and their walking in his paths? The holy prophet expressly tells you in his following words:-They shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, (N.B.) neither shall they learn war any more.-This is the prophet's true Christendom, with one and the same essential divine mark set upon it, as when the Lamb of God said, by this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another as I have loved you, ...Christ's

Christ's kingdom of God is no where come, but where the works of the devil are destroyed, and men are turned from the power of satan unto God. God is only another name for the highest and only good; and the highest and only good, means nothing else but love with all its works. Satan is another name for the whole. and all of evil, and the whole of evil is nothing else but its whole contrariety to love: and the sum total of all contrariety to love, is contained in pride, wrath, strife, self, envy, hatred, revenge, mischief and murder. Look at these, with all. their fruits that belong to them, and then you see all the princely power that satan is and has, in this fallen world.

Would you see when and where the kingdoms of this fallen world are become a kingdom of God, the gospel prophet tells you, that it is then and there where all enmity ceaseth.-The wolf, saith he, shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. The calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them; the cow and the bear shall feed, and their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ing child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den-For, (N.B.) they shall not hurt-nor destroy in all my holy mountain, that is, throughout all holy Christendom. Isaiah xi. 6.

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See here a kingdom of God on the earth; it is nothing else but a kingdom of mere love, where

where all hurt and destroying is done away, and every work of enmity changed into one united power of reigning love the prophet tells you, it is because in the day of his kingdom, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea:-Therefore, O Christendom! Thy wars are thy certain proof, that thou art all over-as full of an ignorance of God, as the waters cover the sea!

As to the present fallen state of universal christendom, working under the spirit and power of the great fiery dragon, it is not my inten tion, in any thing I am here upon, to shew how any part of it can subsist, to preserve itself from being devoured by every other part, but by its own dragon weapons.

In these last ages of fallen Christendom, many reformations have taken place; but alas! Truth must be forced to say, that they have been in all their variety, little better than so many run-away births of one and the same mother, so many lesser Babels come out of Babylon the great. -For amongst all the reforms, the one only true reformation hath never yet been thought of.-A change of place, of governors, of opinions, together with new formed, outward models, is all the reformation that has yet been attempted.

But the Christendom which I mean, that neither wants nor allows of war, is only that where Christ is king, and his holy spirit the only governor of the wills, affections, and designs of all that belong to it.

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all the nations of Christendom, that this necessity of murdering arms, is the dragon's Monster, that is equally brought forth by all and every part of fallen Christendom; and that therefore all and every part, as well Popish as Protestant, are at one and the same distance from the spirit of their Lord and Saviour the Lamb of God, and therefore ALL WANT ONE AND THE SAME ENTIRE REFORMATION !

Address to the Clergy.

ROBERT BARCLAY.

REVENGE and WAR are evils as opposite and contrary to the spirit and doctrine of Christ, as light to darkness. For, through contempt of Christ's Law, the whole world is filled with various oaths, cursings, blasphemous profanations, and horrid perjuries; so likewise, through contempt of the same law, the world is filled with violence, oppression, murders, ravishing of women and cirgins, spoilings, depredations, burnings, devastati ons and all manner of lasciviousness and cruelty: so that it is strange, that men, made after the image of God, should have so much degenerated that they rather bear the image and nature of roaring Lions, tearing Tygers, devouringWolves, and raging Boars, than rational Creatures endued with reason. And it is yet much more admirable, that this horrid Monster should find place, and be fomented among those men, that profess

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profess themselves disciples of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, who by his cxcellency is called the Prince of Peace, and hath expressly prohibited his children all violence; and on the contrary, commanded them, that according to his example, they should follow Patience, Charity, Forbearance, and other virtues worthy of a Christian!

Hear then what this great prophet saith, whom every soul is commanded to hear, under the pain of being cut off, Mat. 5. from verse 38, to the end of the chapter. For thus he saith: Ye have heard, that it hath been said, an Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth: But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the Law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee; and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not thou away. Ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that 'curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you: that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And

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