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<P>VVO to thee City of <HI>Oxford,</HI> thy wickedne&s;s &s;urmounteth the wickedne&s;s of <HI>Sodome;</HI> therefore repent whil&s;t thou ha&s;t time, lea&s;t I con&s;ume thee with fire, as I have done it; therefore harden not your hearts, lea&s;t I con&s;ume you, and my wrath burn like fire, and I con&s;ume you in my fierce anger, and &s;o be brought to nought; for thou ha&s;t joyned hands with thy &s;i&s;ter <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> therefore will I uncover thy nakedne&s;s, and thy &s;hame will I unfold that the bea&s;t in thee may be di&s;covered that &s;itteth on many waters; for thou art full of wickedne&s;s, thy hands are full of deceit, the well-fa|voured harlot lodgeth in thee, the mother of witchcraft; and now I am rai&s;ing my &s;wift witne&s;s to confound her ways: I am the light of the world and do enlighten every one that cometh into the world, &s;aith Chri&s;t Je&s;us. I am the &s;ure foundation, and he that buildeth up|on me &s;hall have eternal life; I have mourned for you as one mourneth for her fir&s;t born, and you would not come unto me that you might live: I have knocked and called, and none would hear; therefore will I thunder out my Judgments upon this wicked generation which hath not the fear of God; therefore the wicked &s;hall &s;ee it and tremble: horror and terror, and pain &s;hall take hold upon them as upon a woman in travel, and many &s;hall cry, but there &s;hall be none to deliver them; therefore repent whil&s;t I give you a day, lea&s;t you become as fruitle&s;s trees which cumbers the ground, for every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted, will be pluckt up by the roots, and therefore repent whil&s;t I give you a day, for I gave <HI>Ie&s;abel</HI> a day, and I gave <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> a day, but they would not; therefore mind what I &s;hall &s;ay, and where I do &s;peak be &s;till, and low, and wait in &s;ilence, and then you &s;hall hear a voice &s;aying, <HI>this is the way walk in it,</HI> and if any have any de&s;ire to walk in this way, I will be with them, and guide them, and there &s;hall you find &s;weet paths, and plentious redemption. Therefore for your &s;ouls health; for it was for the good of your &s;ouls that I took upon me the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham,</HI> and became the likene&s;s of &s;inful fle&s;h, were it not that I loved the world; t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">erefore I would not have you go a&s;tray as &s;heep without a &s;hep|heard, &s;cattered up and down upon every Mountain and Valley, and carried away with every winde of doctrine; but now am I a rai&s;ing up my own &s;eed which hath been &s;o long under <HI>Pharaoh</HI> the task-ma&s;ter, <HI>Oxford</HI> thou task-ma&s;ter, <HI>Pharaoh</HI> thou oppre&s;ser which opre&s;|&s;eth the Ju&s;t &s;eed within thee, in &s;etting up thy own righteou&s;ne&s;s and wi&s;dom, which &s;hall grow as ragged as an old garment that moths hath eat, and I will make thee know that my righteou&s;ne&s;s endureth from generation to generation, and &s;o for ever. And now let hills be removed, and mountains be da&s;hed to pieces, and the &s;trong hold be levelled; for a day there is coming that will make the keepers of the hou&s;e tremble, woful and terrible will that day be to the wicked, whil&s;t the &s;trong-man keeps the hou&s;e all is at peace, but when a &s;tronger than he cometh, he then mu&s;t be turned out; <HI>I came not to bring peace but war,</HI> &s;aith Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and now turn in your eys from beholding vanity; for that eye looketh from Chri&s;t, and that nature is accur&s;ed from God, for Chri&s;t Je&s;us is pure, and can behold no vain thing: <HI>E&s;au</HI> is accur&s;ed from God, Jacob <HI>have I loved and</HI> E&s;au <HI>have I hated, for out of</HI> Abraham <HI>&s;hall my name be called.</HI> Death reign|eth over all men till they be regenerate and born again: and they that be born again of God &s;in not, but their &s;ins are forgiven them; ther|fore repent that your &s;ins may be forgiven you al&s;o, the ma&s;ter hath given you a tallent to &s;ee how you will improve it, that you may be found faithful Stewards, that when the Lord &s;hall call for that which he hath given you, that when the Lord comes He may &s;ay, <HI>come yee good and faithful Stewards, enter into your Ma&s;ters joy:</HI> but for the wicked, <HI>go ye cur&s;ed</HI> and ye that forget God &s;hall be ca&s;t into hell. Prai&s;es, prai&s;es to the Lord, that he is ray&s;ing up his own Saints to Judg the earth: and many now do witne&s;s their Judgments true, but to the wicked Judgments are terrible: and none but them cometh to &s;ee the fre&s;h &s;prings of eternal life, but they that live in the life of them that gave them forth, and there they will come to &s;ee the filthine&s;s of the&s;e two wicked Cities, how they ly wallowing in their blood, and their blood &s;hall be required at their own hands; for they that come forth of <HI>Oxford</HI> &amp; <HI>Cambridge,</HI> they are &s;uch as <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> was &s;ent to, to cry woe again&s;t, greedy dumb-dogs that never have enough, and love greeting in the Market-places, and long prayers in the Synagogues and the upper &s;eats at fea&s;ts, and be called of men Ma&s;ters; they are filthy bruit-bea&s;ts which maketh my people to err, therefore the ground is cur&s;ed for your &s;akes: thorns and thi&s;tles &s;hall it bring forth for your &s;akes until you return to <HI>Adams</HI> fir&s;t e&s;tate. And now I have &s;hown you the way that you &s;hould walk in, take heed to the light that &s;hineth in a dark place: light &s;hineth in darkne&s;s, &amp; the darkne&s;s comprehendeth it not; therefore repent that the darkne&s;s may be taken away, and &s;o become children of the light, and not children of the night, but children of the day; for they that walk in the day &s;tumble not, becau&s;e they have the light with them: but they that walk in the night &s;tumble, becau&s;e they are in darkne&s;s; And now let the light &s;earch you, for Chri&s;t Je&s;us is now &s;earching <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> with Candles, and not one corner of it mu&s;t go un&s;earched. Beware of &s;educers that cometh in &s;heeps cloathing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves; for &s;uch Chri&s;t Je&s;us &s;poke of that &s;hould come in the latter days, Oh <HI>Oxford</HI> thou art full of filth, thy Prie&s;ts are all corrupt as bra&s;s and iron is corrupt and cankered, &s;o is this City full of hainous &s;ins thou art full of pride and covetou&s;ne&s;s, thou art poluted in thy blood, and joyns hou&s;e to hou&s;e, and field to field, until there is no place left for the poor. God exalteth the poor in &s;pirit, but the rich he &s;endeth empty away; it is the humble and lowly mind trembles at my Word, that I teach, and now &s;ee in you, and &s;earch in you whether you are not in <HI>Cains</HI> ways, murdering and killing the ju&s;t in you, and whiping, and &s;tocking them that the Lord hath &s;ent to you; therefore repent and do &s;o no more, take heed and do &s;o no more, lea&s;t I render my plagues double on thy head; and when the book of con&s;cience is opened then &s;halt thou witne&s;s this to be true; therefore remember that thou wa&s;t forewarned in thy life time, there|fore wait in &s;ilence till the day dawn, and the day-&s;tar ari&s;e in your hearts, then will you come to witne&s;s &s;weet &s;prings, fre&s;h ones of eternal life; but for the wicked they be like the raging Sea that to&s;seth to and fro, that ca&s;teth up nothing but mire and dirt: your hearts are full of dirt, and filth, thy pride &s;hall become as filthy rags upon the dunghil; therefore &s;it down and bethink thee what thou art, thou art but du&s;t and a&s;hes: and cannot I kill and make alive, cannot I ca&s;t down and rai&s;e up, &s;pread abroad and bring together: yea, my hands have done all the&s;e things; I am a gathering all my &s;heep together where they have been &s;cattered in this dark and cloudy day, I will bring them from under <HI>Pharaoh</HI> that they may have one Ma&s;ter, one Shephard, and one &s;heepfold; the true Shep|hard will lay down his life for his &s;heep: but the hireling will fly when per&s;ecution comes; and therefore will I gather my &s;heep out of their mouths, and he that hath an ear let him hear; and therefore will I pour out my Iudgments upon them, to cut down and burn up &amp; to de&s;troy; for it is to the cutting down of pride, of filth, of covetou&s;nes voluptuou&s;nes, and all wicked ways, &amp; what delight is in the pride of life? If thy con&s;cience accu&s;e thee, what peace can&s;t thou have? therefore have I &s;ent light into the world, but men love darkne&s;s rather then light, and there is their condemnation. Chri&s;t Je&s;us is the eternal life, and they that come to witne&s;s him in power and glory, com|eth to witne&s;s Chri&s;t Je&s;us the &s;ub&s;tance; and this light will lead thee out of all forms &amp; &s;haddows, and in it will come to &s;ee all things have an end but Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and he endureth for ever; and therefore build upon him that endureth for ever, build not upon the &s;and, for the waves beating to and fro, they bring the &s;and into the Sea and &s;o the builder loo&s;eth his work, and he that waiteth upon me &s;hall not wa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> in vain, but have eternal life: it is them that endureth to the end &s;hall be &s;aved: it is not him that cryeth Lord, Lord, but them that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven &s;hall be &s;aved; and &s;ee who&s;e will thou art doing, &amp; &s;ee if thou be not in thy own will &amp; man in his own will hath never &s;een God at any time; for <HI>Adam</HI> when he was in his fallen e&s;tate, he was driven out from God, &amp; &s;o alie|nated from God &amp; &s;ee if you be not vagabonds as <HI>Cain</HI> was, for <HI>Cain</HI> was a vagabond &amp; a runagate, he &s;lew the ju&s;t, and &s;o do&s;t thou&punc; there|fore thou ha&s;t run after other Gods, &amp; ha&s;t ca&s;t my righteous Law behind thy back; and therefore am I coming to rip up all hearts, it is I that tryeth the reins, it is I that knoweth the thoughts long before, annd how can you hide your &s;elves from &s;uch a God as I? I will ren|der Judgments upon the head of the wicked, and all the world &s;hall &s;ee the Glory of God; for he is ari&s;ing in his Glory to Judg the earth, with righteous Judgment and equity will he Judg the earth, and the wicked &s;hall &s;ee it &amp; tremble; and now am I looking for the corn &amp; wine &amp; oyl I gave to feed the poor, but you have &s;pent it upon your lu&s;ts; the whole Creation groans under you, for your evil deeds &amp; corrupt language: in <HI>Cains</HI> nature you are, and death &s;peaketh of the fame of God. Powerful, Powerful is the God of Glory in all his works his ways pa&s;t finding out, and to them that live in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, they know the mind and will of God their guide and keeper; but to the wicked he is a de&s;troyer, to de&s;troy their wicked ways with fire and with a &s;word to cut down the fruitle&s;s branches; for what is the wild grape-tree good for? men cannot make any In&s;truments of the wood; therefore it is good for nothing but to be ca&s;t into the fire: &s;o &s;hall the wicked; for Tophet is prepared of old for them that will not obey Gods Word, and his &s;ervants, but obey &s;in and Satan; and there|fore will I pour out my &s;even vials upon the &s;eat of the bea&s;t, the wicked bea&s;t is in every wicked heart, and therefore &s;ink down &amp; wait and &s;ee how thy &s;oul lyeth in death, drowned in filth, &s;mothered in wickedne&s;s; therefore repent that that which pre&s;seth down thy &s;oul may be taken away, for the &s;oul is mine, and I de&s;ire nothing of any but my own, and that with advantage; for he is the &s;loathful &s;er|vant that improveth not his Ma&s;ters goods; &amp; therefore from him that hath a little, that little he hath &s;hall be taken away &amp; given to him that hath mo&s;t, and he that hath an ear let him hear: and while you have time prize it; Remember you are warned in your life time, and all left without excu&s;e.</P>
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