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<HEAD>GODS ZEAL THUNDERED FORTH, Again&s;t all Tho&s;e <HI>MAGISTRATES, BISHOPS, PRIESTS and PEOPLE</HI> Of this CITY of LONDON, Who have de&s;erted their Brethren in this day of &s;ore CALAMITY.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Thus &s;aith the Lord,</OPENER>
<P>BEHOLD, Oh City! I have vi&s;ited Thee with my Judgement, to the end thy Inhabitants through true repentance might learn Righteou&s;ne&s;s; and <HI>therefore have I given my</HI> ANGEL COMMISSION <HI>to &s;mite in thee, to cut off and de&s;troy;</HI> who is fulfilling <HI>my</HI> Decree, prophecyed of in thee <HI>O City,</HI> by my Servants, whom thou ha&s;t rewarded evil for all their love unto thee; and the cry of their injurious &s;ufferings, and oppre&s;&s;ions are entred into my Ears, for who&s;e &s;akes I am ari&s;en to plead with all their Adver&s;aries, and will <HI>lay wa&s;t</HI> and <HI>make de&s;olate;</HI> yea, and I will even <HI>lay heaps upon heaps,</HI> for all thy abominations wherewith thou ha&s;t provoked me year af|ter year, and time after time; yea, in my <HI>Zeal</HI> have I declared it. And you who have mo&s;t &s;hamefully de&s;erted your Brethren in this day of CALAMITY, and have fled the Judgment, and have taken SANCTUARY in the holes of the Earth, and clifts of the Rocks, thinking thereby to hide from my Pre&s;ence; <HI>I will vi&s;it you, I will vi&s;it you,</HI> and you &s;hall know <HI>I am God of the Coun|try as well as the City,</HI> and my hand &s;hall &s;earch you out, and your Gods of <HI>Silver</HI> and of <HI>Gold,</HI> in whorn you have tru&s;ted this many years, and do tru&s;t, &s;hall not be able to &s;ave you from my wrath, <HI>for I am God of the whole Earth.</HI> Is this <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> to your <HI>Brethren,</HI> to leave them &s;ick and wounded, with my <HI>Judg|ments?</HI> what, all pa&s;s by, yea, LEVITE and all, <HI>&s;urely, &s;urely,</HI> my hand &s;hall follow you even to the remote&s;t hole and corner, whereunto you are fl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d: And for you that have taken upon you to promote a <HI>National Church and Wor&s;hip,</HI> and are <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> thereof, and are found in this <HI>ungodly</HI> de&s;ertion; my hand is a|gain&s;t you for ever, fora&s;much as you have given the <HI>Magi&s;trate</HI> no <HI>re&s;t</HI> till he hath wrought your vengeance upon my people; <HI>my woes for ever is your portion:</HI> what did you make mention of my name in your A&s;&s;emblies in a time of pro&s;perity, and in a time of Judgment do you flee? am not I the &s;ame God &s;till; if your Wor&s;hip was good then, it is good now; and <HI>&s;urely</HI> in &s;uch a time as this <HI>all hands and hearts in holine&s;s are to be lifted up;</HI> but to me have you been known of old, and the wayes of your hy|pocri&s;ie and deceit, your <HI>inventions, traditions,</HI> and all your vain <HI>Imitations,</HI> mine eyes have beheld, and my very Soul hath loathed them, and long ago have I &s;pued them forth, in the&s;e Nations, and the&s;e your deceitful performances, are a very ab|horency unto my Soul. And would you have a People whom I have gathered forth of all People to <HI>magnifie my Name,</HI> and in whom I have placed <HI>my Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Truth,</HI> manife&s;ted un|to them by my Eternal Spirit, to bow unto your wayes, which my very Soul abhors? Though you have been permitted for &s;ome years to inflict penalties upon them according to the rule of your Lu&s;ts; and &s;ome you have <HI>&s;lain,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>Bani&s;hed,</HI> and many <HI>impri&s;oned,</HI> and are at this time in your <HI>Cruel Goales</HI> held; for your better effecting your <HI>Barbarity</HI> of <HI>Bani&s;hment</HI> on them, <HI>I tell you and that in my holy Zeal, you &s;hall fail in your purpo&s;e,</HI> for I have not gathered them into my <HI>Holy Truth,</HI> any more to con|form, or bow to an <HI>Harlot,</HI> for my wayes are purity, in which I am leading of them. And thy wound <HI>O National Church of England</HI> which thou ha&s;t given thy &s;elf in this day and time &s;hall never more be cured, for all the <HI>Balme</HI> that thy <HI>Halberts, Clubs,</HI> and <HI>Staves,</HI> with all thy ungodly coercions of all &s;orts pour'd into it; &s;hall not heale it, for if thou would have exalted thy way, now had been thy time to have been <HI>zealous,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>eyes</HI> which were <HI>blinded,</HI> with thy <HI>Charmes</HI> and <HI>&s;orceries,</HI> behold <HI>I will open them,</HI> yea and they &s;hall hate thee with an <HI>utter dete&s;tation,</HI> and my great <HI>di&s;pen&s;ation</HI> at hand will I manife&s;t, which hath been &s;poken of old, <HI>I will, I will, yea I will, devide between Prie&s;t and Magi&s;trate,</HI> and this my work is in order unto it, <HI>the eye in me doth behold it:</HI> And though you may in your hearts trea&s;ure up vengeance in your holes whereinto yee are fled, and may think &s;o &s;oon as my hand is a little removed, to fall to your old cur&s;ed work of PERSECUTION, and inflicting your <HI>barbarous</HI> penalty upon my People; I &s;ay I will honour and magnifie my Name in and through all the&s;e things, <HI>Remember Pharaoh, for his &s;econd Plague was wor&s;e and more heavy then his fir&s;t;</HI> and at la&s;t he paid dear for all his Aggrevation. And you who have lived like <HI>Divels</HI> in the fle&s;h in <HI>ramming, damming, &s;inking,</HI> and <HI>confounding,</HI> with numberle&s;s <HI>Execrations,</HI> your very lives have been <HI>hell</HI> on <HI>Earth,</HI> your heaven hath been in <HI>Taverns, Alchou&s;es, Whorehou&s;es,</HI> and all manner of ungodly <HI>Stage-Playes,</HI> and other places of <HI>Debau|chery;</HI> you even have made my fury to &s;moke, and your cur&s;ed de&s;ires in belching forth <HI>Oathes, Plagues,</HI> and other hideous EXECRATIONS, <HI>are now, even now falfilling upon you.</HI> And thus with my Judgements which are pure and ju&s;t, will I &s;weep this Nation till the <HI>hypocrite, prophane, PERSECUTER,</HI> and ungodly be no more.</P>
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<P>Printed the 4th. day of the 6th. Moneth, 1665.</P>
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