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<P>THE TRVMPET OF THE LORD BLOWNE. <HI>OR,</HI> A BLAST Again&s;t Pride and Oppre&s;&s;ion, and the Defiled Liberty, which &s;tands in the Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>By a Servant and Me&s;senger of the Lord, who is called into the work of the Lord, and to blow his Trumpet in England; &s;o that all may be fore|warned in this day of the Lords calm, and be left without excu&s;e, and in the day of his righteous Judgments be found ju&s;t and true; in love to all impri&s;oned Souls.</P>
<P>By a Lover of all Souls, who is called, <HI>JAMES PARNEL.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Black Spread Eagle, neer the we&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1655.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>THE</HI> TRUMPET of the Lord blown.</HEAD>
<P>WOE unto you that are called Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gen|tlemen, and Gentlewomen, in re&s;pect to your per&s;ons, who are exalted in the earth, who are proud, and high, and lofty, who are called of men Ma&s;ter, and Sir, and Mi&s;tris, and Madam, in re&s;pect to your per&s;ons, becau&s;e of your gay Cloathing, becau&s;e of your much earth, which by fraud, deceit, and op|pre&s;&s;ion you have gotten together, you are exalted above your fellow-creatures, and grind the faces of the poore, and they are as &s;laves under you, and mu&s;t labour and toyle under you, and you mu&s;t live at ea&s;e, &s;porting in day time, and &s;pending your time in plea&s;ures,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. i2. 13.</NOTE> and Cham|bring, and wantonne&s;s, according to your lu&s;tful minds, in Hauking and Hunting, and bouling &amp; carding, &amp; dicing, in all manner of musick plea|&s;ure &amp; delights, in eating &amp; drinking and &s;leeping, and you mu&s;t have your wine and ale, and all your dainty di&s;hes, and all manner of delights and novelties, and &s;o ye &s;eed the lu&s;t; eating and drinking and ri&s;ing up to play, which is Idolatry, and you have your fine attire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. i0. 7.</NOTE> and all manner of new fa&s;hions, Silk and velvet, and purple, Gold and Silver, and you have your waiting-men, and waiting-maids under you to wait upon you, and your Coaches to ride, and your high and lofty hor&s;es is like your &s;elves, according to your lofty minds, and you sit at ea&s;e, Di|ves like, devouring the Creation, and &s;pending it upon your lu&s;ts, and with it committing fornication, into it your hearts being adultred from God, who created you, and your fellow-creatures mu&s;t labour like &s;laves under you, and works for all this, when you are at your plea&s;ures, they mu&s;t be at work and labour, that mu&s;t Hunger and thir&s;t and labour, when you are eating, and drinking, and &s;leeeping, and here like Dives you sit at ea&s;e, and poor Lazarus lyes &s;tarving without, and here you are Lords over your fellow-Creatures,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 16.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">9.20. 2i.</NOTE> and they mu&s;t bow and crouch to you or el&s;e they mu&s;t bee hated, and puni&s;hed, and put out from your pre&s;ence, and be &s;coffed, and &s;corned, and reproached, and you wil be called Ma&s;ters, and thinks &s;corn that a poore man &s;hould &s;tand with his hat on before you, and &s;o &s;ets up partiallity, which that Law of God condemns, upholding that which Chri&s;t in his doctrine forbids, who &s;aith, be not ye called Ma&s;ters, and &s;o by it which you did profe&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23.8.</NOTE> you are condemned, and you think &s;corn in particular, to be thoued of your
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fellow-Creatures, which is the Scripture language to one, but you will thou God and Chri&s;t, and yet you wil not be thoued, and here you exalt your &s;elves above God, and Lords over your fellow-creatures, but though you be exalted as high as the Heavens, and &s;et your ne&s;ts a|mong&s;t the Stars,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Obad. 3.4,</NOTE> and lay up trea&s;ures for many yeers, thence will the Lord fetch you down, and ca&s;t you into Hell the pit, as he did Lucifer, Dives,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. i4. 13, i4. i5.</NOTE> and Hammen, and Pharoah, and Herod, and the re&s;t of your fore fathers, who would have been exalted above the Creator as you would, for it is Lucifer who is head and is exhalted in you, above all that is called God, oppo&s;ing God, who is God over you, whom you &s;erve and wor&s;hip, for whom the pit is prepared: To the light in all your con|&s;ciences I &s;peak, which is hone&s;t of God, and impartial, which wil let you &s;ee you are guilty and condemn you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2, 3, 4.</NOTE> but you think to have the plea&s;ure and delights of this world, to be at ea&s;e and peace here, and to have an inheritance in the Kingdome of Good too, and you have covers for all this, you &s;ay your plea&s;ures is pa&s;time and recreation, and your fyne cloathes and gay attire, is comline&s;s and decency, and your dainty di|&s;hes and banqueting novelties and attendance, you &s;ay you are able to maintain it, and it belongs to your places, and &s;o you have covers for all, but wo unto you that hide your Sins, and covers your iniquities, who covers with a covering but not with the Lord, but all your covers is found too narrow before the Lord Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 28. i3. I&s;a. 30.1.</NOTE> who wil lay all your hypo|cri&s;ye and deceit before you, and your vain lyes and actions, and you &s;hall be rewarded accordingly, and &s;hall have your portion in the Lake that burneth, which is prepared for you earth-worms, who&s;e plea&s;ure is in the earth, but you think to be &s;aved, and &s;o would make Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles lyars, who &s;aid, none could obtaine two Kindomes, and no &s;uch mu&s;t enter who have their portions and delight in the earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iames 5. i. 5.</NOTE> and you make a profe&s;&s;ion of godlines with your praiers, prai&s;es graces, &amp; &s;inging &amp; formal imaginary wor&s;hip, and have a Chaplain or a Prie&s;t to preach to you one day in a week, and all the week after do as you do, and &s;pends the time as you do, in eating, and drinking, and rising up to play, and lives in pride and covetou&s;ne&s;s, and is called of men Ma&s;ter, and you have a place for him to preach to you, in either in your hou&s;es or hard-by, &s;o have all things at ea&s;e, and all this for your money, but the pearl you want,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 28.</NOTE> which is not to be purcha&s;ed with money, where lies the ine|&s;timable trea&s;ures: and you &s;ay he is a Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t, and he &s;aith you are Chri&s;tians, whenas you all are Heathens both Prie&s;t and people, living without God in the world, and &s;o the blind leads the blind into the Ditch, and &s;o you lead your lives and &s;pend your time here and thinks to be &s;aved hereafter; no, no, wo, and wo is coming upon you all who are proud, you mu&s;t all give an account before the Lord God, of Heaven and Earth, who is terrible to the wicked, and behold, the
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day of the Lord cometh, which will burn as an Oven, and all that are proud,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.1. Gal. 6.6, 7, 8.</NOTE> and all that do wickedly &s;hall be as &s;tubble and &s;uch as you &s;ow &s;uch mu&s;t you reap, he that &s;ows to the fle&s;h of the fle&s;h, mu&s;t reap cor|ruption, the Lord abhors all your profe&s;&s;ion, and your hypocri&s;ye, it is not profe&s;&s;ion that he &s;eeks for, it is practi&s;e, it is not the &s;ayer, but the doer that &s;hall inherit, your forefathers &s;aid but did not, &s;o do you, but it is not all that &s;aith Lord, Lord, that &s;hall inherit,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 7. 2i.</NOTE> but he that doth the will of my Father; what is the chaffe to the wheat? the Lord looks for fruits, you profe&s;s him in words, but your works are the works of the Devil, and l'o are of this &s;ort who come neer him with their lips,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 29. i3.</NOTE> but their hearts are far from him, in your gay attire, in your new fa&s;hions, in your varieties, in your dainty di&s;hes, in your Gaming and plea&s;ures, and &s;por|ting, in your wealth and earthly riches, in your lofty hor&s;es, in your cu|rious buildings, in your fyne Musick, in your earthly honor, which is all the fruits of the Devil, and here outwardly you profe&s;s the Lord, wth your tongues, but &s;erve the Devil with your hearts and actions, who is the King of pride, and here you are in the broad and easie way,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iames 5.6.</NOTE> in the fyr&s;t nature, which is in the fall &s;eparated from God, who&s;e Kingdom is of this world, &s;trangers to the life of God, and are at enmity, &s;laying and crucifying the ju&s;t and innocent, and &s;o are no Chri&s;tians but Heathens both Prie&s;t and people, and the Lord abhors all &s;acrafycers from Cain, which is the fyr&s;t nature wherein you live, rove out from God into the earth, your lives preacheth you forth, &s;o all your graces before and af|ter meat, and your prayers, and your prai&s;es and Singing, and formall wor&s;hips and traditions, the Lord abhors,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4.3.5. I&s;a. 1. i2, 13, i4. 15, 16, i7. Prov. i5. 8.</NOTE> for they are offered up in the fyr&s;t nature, a &s;acrifyce of the earth, and Savours of the earth, and is not a &s;weet &s;mell unto him, and therefore he hath no re&s;pect to it, his &s;oul loaths it, away with it, and they that offer it, for it is enmity with him, the prayers and &s;acrifyces of the wicked is abominable, all prayers or Sacrifices offered ap from Cain, Dives or Hammon, or any in that nature, is abominable to the Lord, and he wil not accept them, for to them he hath no re&s;pect, therefore all you high and lofty ones, Ham|mon like, be ye &s;ylent and let your mouths, be &s;topped all you who acts in unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, away with all your profe&s;&s;ion, and now repent and tremble before the Lord, ye children of the Devil, come down all you high and lofty ones, houl and mourn in &s;ackcloath and a&s;hes, for the Lord is coming to burn you up as &s;tubble before him, for you are the fruitle&s;&s;e TREES that cumbers the ground,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 27.19.</NOTE> who are for the Fire, faire and flouri&s;hing with Leaves you are covered, but by CHRIST the LIGHT, ye are &s;earched, and no Fruit is &s;ound on you, therefore from him you are cur&s;ed for fruit hee is come to &s;eeke for, therefore profe&s;s him no longer in words, but now repent and return from all your UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,
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for know you not that no unrighteous per&s;on &s;hall inherit the Kingdom of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">i Cor. 6.9.</NOTE> no vain per&s;on nor drunkards, &s;wearers, no lyar, no proud, no covetous ones, none who delight in gaming or plea&s;ures, &s;potting in the day time and riotting, chambering and wantonne&s;s, nor no unholy nor unclean thing mu&s;t enter, for all unrighteous per&s;ons mu&s;t be ca&s;t into the Lake that burns with Fire and brim&s;tone for ever: now read your &s;elves and your Portions, all you high and lofty ones, for thither you mu&s;t go, and there you mu&s;tly for evermore, the Lord of ho&s;ts hath &s;poke it, with Dives and Hammon, and all the high and lofty ones who mu&s;t be ca&s;t in thither,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ea&s;ter 3.</NOTE> for you are too high and too Fine, and too lofty to en|ter in at the &s;traight gate, as Dives was, and Hammon was, nay, you are enemeis and per&s;ecutors of all tho&s;e who enters in at the &s;traite gate, as Hammon, and Dives, and the High Prie&s;ts, Phari&s;es, and Rulers was, and all the high ones, becau&s;e they do not feed you with your earthly honour, and re&s;pects no per&s;on, but equalizes all fle&s;h, as the Lord doth &s;o doth his people,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts i0.34.35.</NOTE> but you proud ones thinks &s;corn to be compared, or to be equalized with your fellow-creatures, as Dives and Hammon did, but all you proud ones, remember your father Dives end, for thither you mu&s;t go into the everla&s;ting burnings, as he did, who&s;e belly was his God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke i6. i9. &amp; Phil. 3. i9.</NOTE> as yours is, who&s;e end is de&s;truction, who mind earthly things, and then it wil be too late for you to repent, and then when it is too late, then you wil wi&s;h you had been as Lazarus was, &s;o that at the end you might have enjoyed the happine&s;s that Lazarus did, though now you are exalted above your fellow-creatures,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezekiel i6. 44.</NOTE> living in Pride, Idlene&s;s, and fulne&s;s of bread, which was the Sins of Sodome, but in this day you &s;hal be brought down, and all you workers of eniquity, young and old, rich, and poor, Lord and Lady, and beggars &s;hall be all turned into Hel with|out re&s;pect of per&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah 2.42. Heb. i0. 8.34. Heb. 1i. 36, 37, 38. Luke i6. 22.23</NOTE> then &s;hall it be with the Mi&s;tri&s;s, &s;o with the maid, as with the Servant &s;o with the Ma&s;ter, and as with the people, &s;o with the Prie&s;t, &amp; all the righteous &s;imple ones which you de&s;pi&s;e and &s;coff at, who are now to you gazing &s;tocks, and reproaches and pilgrims in the world, becau&s;e their Kingdom is not of this world, then &s;hall that be exalted and received into joy eternal, then you &s;hal &s;ee a &s;eparation be|twixt the humble and the proud, as there was betwixt Dives and Laza|rus, the humble, and loly, and de&s;pi&s;ed ones &s;hall be exalted, and you high lofty ones, who are de&s;pi&s;ers and crucifyers of the ju&s;t, &s;hall be a|ba&s;ed and ca&s;t into Hell, then Lord and Lady, Ma&s;ter and Mi&s;tris and all your earthly honor, &s;hall be laid into the fyre, then all your worldly wealth, riches, and earthly inheritance and heir-&s;hips will be gone, wherewith you ruled as Lords in the eerth,, then you &s;hall fynd that all your gay cloathing and rich attire was for pride, and not for decency, and that many of your fellow-creatures wanted that for to cover their nakedne&s;s which you &s;pent upon your lu&s;ts, then you &s;hall be rewarded for grinding the faces of the poor, for your oppre&s;&s;ions, and for rackings
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and taxings and your heavy burthens, wherewith you oppre&s;s your fel|low creatures, for you are the high Oaks and the tall Cedars that op|pre&s;s the little &s;crubs under,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 2. i2, i3. &amp;c.</NOTE> whom the Creation growns both man and bea&s;ts, but then you will be brought low, then all your plea&s;ures and wantonne&s;s, hauking and hunting, and bowling and carding, and di|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ing and all your Musik &s;hall be turned into weeping and howling with Dives, Lazarus had none of this, but Dives had, but now Lazarus hath joy eternall, and Dives wo and mi&s;ery everla&s;ting, and then all your dainty di&s;hes and novelties and varieties which hath fed your lu&s;ts &s;hall be turned into fyre and brim&s;tone, and the &s;poyle of the creatures &s;hall witne&s;s again&s;t you, and then you &s;hall be &s;tript of of all your Silks and Velvet, and Purple, and Gold, and Silks, and all your gay attire, where|with you decked and addorned your Earthly bodies, to make your &s;elves &s;eem glorious in the eyes of other, for the honor and e&s;teem of the world but then you will be as naked as the beggar, then you &s;hall have no wai|ting men nor waiting maids, nor Coaches, nor high and lofty hor&s;es, nor curious building, or great hou&s;es, no more than the beggar, then bowing and crouching, and all your heatheni&s;h breeding &s;hall be laid aside,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 22.28. Ier. 13. i. Mich. 3.5.</NOTE> then all your Prie&s;ts &amp; fal&s;e Prophets which you extall now &s;o high becau&s;e they daub you up and cry, peace to you, healing you in deceit, becau&s;e you put into their mouths, &s;hal &s;tand you in no &s;teed, but &s;hall be tormented with you hypocrites in the lake, and all your covers wil not &s;erve wherewith you hide your Sin, and covers over your deceipts, in &s;aying your plea&s;ures and vain talk, and fooli&s;h je&s;ting, and tales and &s;tories, is pa&s;time and recreation, then you would be glad of one hour if you could get to repent in, as Dives would, but then it will be too late for your portion you enjoy in the earth, who&s;e Kingdom is of this world, but the Son of man in it had &s;carce where to lay his head, and his &s;er|vants no certain dwelling place, for their Kingdom was not of this world, &s;uch you call wanderers and vaggabonds, who have your great hou&s;es and &s;trong towers in the Earth, but all cannot hide from the pre|&s;ence of the Lord, who will you call in judgment, and reward you accor|ding to your deeds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 9.5.58. i Cor. 4. ii. P&s;alms i45. i3.</NOTE> when his own he doth exalt into the Kingdom which for them he hath prepared, which is an everla&s;ting Kingdom, from which the earthworms are &s;hut out, who &s;aith the earth is mime, there|fore now before it be too late con&s;ider of it, and let Dives and Hammon and the re&s;t of the proud ones be a warning to you, and now repent, while it is called to day, now you have been told, now you are left with|out excu&s;e, before the ju&s;t impartial Iudge; now pri&s;e your time all who de&s;yre mercy at the hand of God, and pardon for your iniquities, for this is the day of your visitation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke i6. i3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> wherein the Lord is handing forth his mercy, and if you will not believe this, you would not blieve Dives and he &s;hould ri&s;e from the Dead.</P>
<P>To the light in all your Con&s;ciences I &s;peak, which comes from Ie|&s;us
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Chri&s;t the light of the world,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn i. 9.</NOTE> who doth enlighten every one that comes into the world, which light is his witne&s;s in the con&s;cience, a|gain&s;t all deceit, ungodline&s;s, and unrighteou&s;ne&s;s of men, which light in all your con&s;ciences is my witne&s;s, to the which I am made manife&s;t, which if you love it, and to it hearken, it will let you &s;ee your &s;elves, and the &s;taite and condition wherein you live, and the fylthy unclean Image of the Devill which you bear, and your Leoperous &s;potted con|&s;ciences, becau&s;e of the lu&s;t wherein you are drowned, and the &s;ame light loving it and following it, which checks and covinces in the con&s;|cience, for that which is evil and of the lea&s;t contrary to the wil of God, it wil lead you to repentance, and humble your hearts, and bring you down to know the fear of the Lord, who&s;e power wil rend your habitati|ons wherein you have dwelt &s;ecure in your Sins, and this light (loving it) will be your teacher, and wil let you &s;ee the Creation and the good|ne&s;s thareof, and will teach you how to u&s;e it and order it in its place, out of the lu&s;t, to the glory of God, and how to do good with it, &s;o that there be no want in the creation nor cry of oppree&s;&s;ion, but the hungry wil be fed, and the naked cloathed, and the oppre&s;&s;ed &s;et free, and here is the ble&s;&s;ing re&s;tored to the Creation, but while the&s;e things is under and you live in the lu&s;ts, with your abundance, nouri&s;hing your hearts as in a day of &s;laughter, the cur&s;e is upon you and war abundance, and you are the adulterers and adultere&s;&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Titus. 2. ii. i2. Iames 4. Iames 5.</NOTE> who&s;e hearts are adulterated from God, committing fornication with the Creation, and the grace of God which &s;hould guide you out of the lu&s;t and ungodline&s;s of the world you turn into wantonne&s;s, and your teachers who cau&s;e you to erre by their &s;orcery and inchantments, and Iames the Son of thunder uttered forth his voice again&s;t &s;uch, and thus &s;aith the Lord, becau&s;e the Daugh|ters of Sion are haughty, and walk with &s;tretched out necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will &s;mite with the &s;cab the Crown of the head of the Daughters of Sion, in that day in that day the Lord wil take away all their bravery of their tinkling ornaments of their feet,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah. 3.</NOTE> and their cauls and round attire, like the Moone, and the chains and the brace|lets, and the head-bands, and tablets, and the Ear-rings, and the no&s;e-Iewels, the changeables &s;uits of apparell, and the mantles, and the wim|ples, and the Cri&s;ping-pins, and the gla&s;&s;es, and the fyne linnen, and the hoods, and the vails, and it &s;hall come to pa&s;s, that in&s;tead of &s;weet &s;mel, there &s;hall be a &s;tinck, and in&s;tead of well &s;eat here, bauldne&s;s, and id&s;tead of a &s;tomacher, a girding with Sackcloath, and burning in|&s;tead of beauty: Now all you high and lofty Daughters of England, who are &s;porting your &s;elves in the day time, and &s;corning and di&s;daining your fellow-creatures, read your &s;elves and your portions, howle and lament, for a day of venegance, of rending, of burning, of famine, is coming upon you, for the Land mourns becau&s;e of pride.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE LIBERTINE, who&s;e Liberty &s;tands in the Fle&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>WOE unto thee, who art at ea&s;e in the <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> devouring the <HI>Cre|ation,</HI> and &s;pending it upon thy <HI>Lusts,</HI> who&s;e heart is run from <HI>God</HI> awhoring after other Lovers, committing, <HI>Fornica|tion</HI> with the <HI>Creation,</HI> nouri&s;hing thy heart as in a day of <HI>&s;laughter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23.30. P&s;al. i0.39. Iames 5.5. Rev, i8.7. Heb. 10.29. Mal. 2. i7.</NOTE> &s;atis|fying thy <HI>lu&s;ts</HI> in what&s;oever thy heart runs after, and &s;o art at ea&s;e in the <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and feels no <HI>&s;orrow</HI> nor <HI>griefe,</HI> but the <HI>Harlot</HI> is exalted in thy <HI>Bo&s;ome,</HI> above all that is called <HI>God,</HI> and thou had ca&s;t his <HI>Law</HI> behind thy back, living withoutt the fear of <HI>God</HI> and walking di&s;pitefully a|gain&s;t the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Grace,</HI> &s;aying within thy &s;elfe, he that doth <HI>evill</HI> is good in the &s;ight of <HI>God,</HI> and where is the <HI>God</HI> of <HI>Iudgment?</HI> can we do any thing without <HI>God,</HI> is it not by his <HI>power</HI> we do all things, and can we do any thing contrary to his <HI>VVill;</HI> yea, thou &s;halt fynde, that all thou do&s;t is contrary to his <HI>will,</HI> and thou &s;halt fynde him, a <HI>God</HI> of <HI>Iudgment,</HI> for thy <HI>Sins</HI> hath &s;eparated thy <HI>Soul</HI> from <HI>God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 59.2.</NOTE> and long in his <HI>love</HI> and <HI>mercy</HI> to thy &s;oul hath he forborn thee, and hath not cut thee off from off the face of the earth, but hath &s;till &s;pared thee, and waited to be gracious, though thy <HI>heart</HI> hath been wholly gone from him, and never regarded to do that which is pleasing in his sight, but in&s;tead of &s;erving him, thou ha&s;t &s;erved thy own <HI>lusts,</HI> with his good <HI>creatures</HI> to which thou ha&s;t had no right, and he to thee hath been a mercifull <HI>God;</HI> but will not the <HI>Lord</HI> visite for the&s;e things? yea, he wil not always &s;trive with man, and though thou take&s;t thy plea&s;ure now, remember thou mu&s;t come to <HI>Iudgment, And lo &s;aith the Lord,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6.3. Eccle. ii. 9. Rev. 22.12. Gal. 6.8.</NOTE> <HI>I come quickly and my reward is with me, to give unto every one according to his deeds. And they that &s;ow to the fle&s;h, &s;hall of the fle&s;h reap corruption:</HI> And then thou &s;halt finde that power thou ha&s;t had, and in&s;tead of using it to the <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Glory</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> thou ha&s;t hid thy <HI>Talent</HI> in the <HI>Earth,</HI> and lived wantonly upon the <HI>Earth,</HI> &s;erving thy own will, di&s;honouring the <HI>Holy Lord</HI> of <HI>Glory</HI> and <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> and then in the day of thy <HI>Iudg|ment,</HI> thou &s;halt confe&s;s that the <HI>Lord</HI> hath visited thee time after time, and called thee time after time, handing forth his <HI>Mercy</HI> to thee, when
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thou harkned, the <HI>Lord</HI> was with thee, when thou walked in his fear, he was not far from thee, but thou ha&s;t hearkned to the voice of the <HI>Serpent</HI> and fal&s;e <HI>Prophet,</HI> which hath drawn thy heart from God, into the visible things of the <HI>Creation,</HI> which pa&s;s away, and hath promi&s;ed thee <HI>Liberty</HI> and <HI>Peace</HI> in the &s;ame, and it being pleasing to thy <HI>lustfull earth|ly minde,</HI> thou art become one with the <HI>Harlot,</HI> which lyeth in thy <HI>Bo|&s;ome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 4, 8.9.</NOTE> and thus thou ha&s;t accepted the gift with which the <HI>Old Serpent</HI> tempted <HI>Christ,</HI> and &s;o art become a <HI>Servant</HI> to the <HI>Devill,</HI> of whom thou art brought in <HI>bondage</HI> of him, being evermore, and while thou art pro|mising to thy &s;elfe <HI>Liberty,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. i9, 20, 2i.</NOTE> thou thy &s;elfe art a <HI>Servant</HI> unto <HI>corruption;</HI> and thus thy <HI>lusts</HI> hath &s;eparated betwixt <HI>God</HI> and thy <HI>Soul,</HI> and art be|come the <HI>Image</HI> of the <HI>Devill,</HI> yeilding thy <HI>Members &s;ervants</HI> to <HI>unclean|ne&s;s,</HI> &amp; thus thou &s;ets up a re&s;t in the <HI>Devils Kingdom,</HI> wherin thou &s;ports thy &s;elf and art at liberty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">i Cor. i0, 7. i Cor. i5.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">8, 9.</NOTE> eating and drinking in merrine&s;s, &s;o if there were &s;orrow only in this world, thou art of all men mo&s;t happy, then our Fathers that are faln a&s;leep in Chri&s;t are peri&s;hed, and we are of all men mo&s;t mi&s;erable, if there be joy only in this world; but out of the liberty of the children of God thou art found, and by them &s;een to be in the fall, wallowing in the myre and lu&s;t, and &s;o art unredeemed, li|ving under the Cur&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.</NOTE> for this is the redemption from death to life, and thou live&s;t after the fle&s;h, and art dead, the carnall minde ruling which is death, and is at enmity with God, for it is not &s;ubject to the will of God, and &s;o long as this hath dominion over thee, thou cannot obey God, for he that lives in the fle&s;h, cannot plea&s;e God, but if through the Spirit thou mortify the deeds of the fle&s;h thou &s;halt live,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. i.</NOTE> and here is the liberty of the Children of God, <HI>VVho walk not after the fle&s;h but af|ter the Spirit,</HI> but their liberty is not in the fle&s;h, but in the Spirit, for by the law of the Spirit of life they are &s;et free from the law of Sin and death: <HI>And from Chri&s;t their Redeemer, they have received power to become the Sons of God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. i, i2.</NOTE> and in the &s;ame have dominion over the world, fle&s;h, &s;elf, and the Devil, death and Hell, and this comes through the Cro&s;s, by which they are crucifyed to the world and the world to them, and here is the liberty of the Children of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Galla. 6. i4.</NOTE> who walk not after the fle&s;h but after the Spirit, which liberty no vulterous eye can &s;ee, nor vene|mous bea&s;t &s;hall know, nor the rebellious di&s;obedient one, therefore do not deceive thy felfe in &s;aying, thou art a Chri&s;tian and believes in Chri&s;t, and art a child of God; for they that are Chri&s;ts have crucifyed the fle&s;h,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Galla. 5.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. Romans 6. i6.</NOTE> and to whom thou yeilds thy members &s;ervants to obey, his &s;ervant thou art, to the light of God in thy con&s;cience I &s;peak, which if thou love it and unto it hearken, and bring thy deeds unto it to be tryed by it, it will witne&s;s for God and his Children, again&s;t thee to be a Child of the Devil, and his works thou do&s;t, and thy faith to be feig|ned like the Hypocrite, and doth not purifye thy heart and &s;o is no more than the wickede&s;t that is, for all &s;ay that Chri&s;t dyed for them, but all
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cannot witne&s;s it, <HI>For he that believes is born of God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 3.9.</NOTE> and he that is born of God doth not commit Sin, and this light loving it, will let thee &s;ee how thy heart is turned from God, and that thou ha&s;t more delight in the things that peri&s;h, than in the fear of the living God, which keeps the heart clean, <HI>And is the beginning of the pure wi&s;dome and righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> and if thou hone&s;tly commune with it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 9. i0.</NOTE> it will let thee &s;ee thy &s;ecret a|ctions, and all thy hidden deeds done in darkne&s;s, that thou mai&s;t come to judgment, and condemnation for all the&s;e things, and except thou be born again and become as a little Child, thou art no child of God, neither can enter the Kingdome of God, but art without in the worlds nature, in the &s;tate of condemnation, in whom the Son of perdition rules above all that is called God, Sitting in the Temple of God, as God, and &s;aith he is God, and here he oppo&s;eth God in his Kingdom, and &s;aith that is lawfull, and for it pleads which God &s;aith is unlawfull and forbids, and he tels the Creature and makes it believe it cannot keep Gods Commandments, and that it hath not power to do that which God commands it, or to depart from evill, and that none lives but they Sin, and Chri&s;t hath &s;atisfyed for all Sin, though they Sin day|ly; that man may u&s;e the Creatures as hee plea&s;eth, &s;eeing they were made for mans u&s;e, and the Spirit of God &s;aith, he that &s;aith he know|eth God and keepeth not his commandments,<NOTE PLACE="marg">i Ioh. 2.4. i Iohn i. i2. Romans 8.2.</NOTE> is a lyar and the truth is not in him; <HI>And as many as receives him, to them he gives power to become the Sons of God; And the Law of the Spirit of life, makes them free from the Law of Sin and death, He that commits &s;in is of the Devill and never knew God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">i Ioh 3. Romans 8. Hebrews i2. i4.</NOTE> <HI>and by this are the Children of God and the Children of the Devill made manifest and he that abides in him &s;inneth not; And he that lives after the fle&s;h cannot plea&s;e God, for without holine&s;s none &s;hall &s;ee the Lord:</HI> and thus the Devill the Old Serpent who was a lyar from the beginning, oppo&s;eth God in his Kingdom, daubing the Creature up in that vvhich is evil, making it a habitation in his Kingdome, vvhile it lives upon the earth, and then mu&s;t take part with him in the lake that is prepared for the Devill and his Servants, who doth not dare to call God a hard Ma&s;ter, as if he would lay a tax upon the Creature which it is not able to per|form, and thus he deceives the Creature, and draws out of the com|mands of God, and out of the fear of God, which pre&s;erves from evill, and &s;o he draws into carele&s;ne&s;s and &s;lothfulne&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Colo&s;&s;. 3.5.6</NOTE> and begets a liberty therein, and becau&s;e of tho&s;e things commeth the wrath of God upon the Children of di&s;obedience, as it was in the beginning when God &s;aid that in the day thou eats of the Apple thou &s;halt die the death, and the Serpent &s;aid, you &s;hall not &s;urely dye, for God doth know that in the day you eat thereof, you &s;hall be as Gods, knowing Good and Evill,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen.</NOTE> and thus he deceived them, and drew them out of the commands of God and out of the fea&s;t of God into the di&s;obedience, and &s;o came the cur&s;e of God upon them, by hearkning to him, and entring into his tempta|tion,
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and then they found God ju&s;t and true, and the Devil a lyar, whom they had believed; now read thy &s;elf, to the light of Chri&s;t in thy Con|&s;cience I &s;peak, which &s;earcheth the heart, and knows the &s;ecret thoughts and intents of the heart, which will witne&s;s me, and condemn thee who walks contrary unto it, be not deceived, God is not mocked, <HI>for &s;uch as thou &s;owe&s;t,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 6.7</NOTE> <HI>&s;uch mu&s;t thou reap,</HI> for God is a ju&s;t God, and wil not ac|quit the wicked, for thou art found a &s;loathful &s;ervant, who hath hid thy talent in the earth, and think not that thou &s;halt receive the reward of the righteous and faithfull, for if the righteous &s;carcely be &s;aved, what will become of the wicked and ungodly, therefore repent while its cal|led to day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">i Pet. 4. i8,</NOTE> harden not thy heart, lea&s;t the judgments of God come upon thee at unawares and &s;weep thee away, and give thee thy portion a|mong&s;t the &s;loathfull hypocrites and unbelievers, for by the light of God thou art &s;een and found in the Sins of Sodom, and the plagues of Sodom is comming upon thee, therefore be afflicted and mourn, and let thy laughter be turned to mourning and thy joy into heavine&s;s, for to judgment thou mu&s;t come,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iam. 4.9.</NOTE> and thy liberty; to the light of Chri&s;t in thy con&s;cience I am made manife&s;t, which if thou loves it, will let thee &s;ee thy &s;elf, and tender thy con&s;cience and wil lead thee into the fear of God following of it, and will humble thee, and bring down thy high and lof|ty looks, and bring thee under judgment and condemnation for thy &s;tiff|neckedne&s;s, di&s;obedience, and rebellion again&s;t the Son of righteou&s;ne&s;s, here will be thy condemnation, out of thy own mouth wil the Lord judg thee in righteou&s;ne&s;s by the light in thy Con&s;cience, which he hath en|lightned the withall, which now thou Kicke&s;t again&s;t, which will thy thy torment be, this is a warning from the Lord unto thee, and now thou art left without excu&s;e in the pre&s;ence of the living God, by the light of God, this is the day of thy visitation, and the day of thy judg|ment draw nigh, now thou ha&s;t time pri&s;e it: <HI>For the day of the Lord will be as a Thiefe in the night,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">i The&s;. 5.2, 3.</NOTE> <HI>to all the children of darkne&s;s, as it was to the So|domites, and verily I &s;ay unto thee, it &s;hall be more tolerable for</HI> Sodom <HI>and</HI> Gomorah <HI>in the day of Iudgment than for thee, if thou dost not repent, who ha&s;t ta&s;ted of the love and mercy of God, and ha&s;t trampled it under foot, and ha&s;t rebelled again&s;t the Spirit of Grace.</HI></P>
<P>VVritten from the Spirit of the Lord, as a warning to all who are in the fle&s;hly liberty, by a witne&s;s of the true liberty of the children of God through death, which liberty &s;tands not in time, nor in any thing in time for all things in time peri&s;h with time, but this remains when time &s;hall be no more, and this is pure un&s;potted of the world.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>IAMES PARNEL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>ALL you that &s;coff, and &s;corn, reproach, &amp; revile at the <HI>Children, Ser|vants,</HI> and <HI>Me&s;&s;engers</HI> of the <HI>mo&s;t High God,</HI> whom you nick-name <HI>quakers,</HI> and under the &s;ame name per&s;ecute them, as a people not worthy to live, and have no ground for it, neither knows any evill by them, but all along their lives and conver&s;ations condemns yours, and therefore you hate them, revile them, &amp; reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manife&s;t, the &s;ame which ever was, <HI>VVhich &s;hakes the Earth and makes the &s;trong man to bow him&s;elf,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. i2. 3.</NOTE> <HI>and the keepers of the hou&s;e to tremble;</HI> and the &s;ame power which all the <HI>Children</HI> of <HI>God</HI> in all ages witne&s;&s;ed, and pa&s;&s;ed through, which then by the &s;ame <HI>Generation</HI> &s;uffered, both by <HI>Magistrates, Profe&s;&s;ors, Priests,</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> who were, &amp; are <HI>&s;trangers</HI> to the life of <HI>God</HI> and his <HI>Power,</HI> and therfore <HI>re|proached, Scoffed</HI> and <HI>&s;corned</HI> it, as you now do,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim 3.3.</NOTE> but it is that the <HI>Scripture</HI> might be fulfilled upon you, <HI>VVho are de&s;pi&s;ers of tho&s;e that do good; I|&s;aak the &s;eed of the promi&s;e trembled, Gen.</HI> 27.33. <HI>VVho was mocked by I&s;hmael the Son of the Bondwoman, who was cast out as the &s;ame &s;eed;</HI> and now by you <HI>I&s;hmalites</HI> who are the Children of the <HI>Bondwoman,</HI> who are ca&s;t out and are found without, mocking and &s;coffing the Righteous &s;eed, Gen. 21.9. i0. Gal. 4.30. <HI>And Mo&s;es a Servant of God quaked and trembled, who counted it greater Riches to &s;uffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the plea&s;ures of Sin for a &s;ea&s;on, Heb.</HI> 12. 2i. <HI>Heb.</HI> ii. 26. and this you now call madne&s;s and folly, <HI>who know not that godline&s;s is great gaine,</HI> i <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.6. and <HI>David</HI> who was a King quaked, and trembled, and roared, and watered his Couch with tears, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 69. i2. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22.14. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 38. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 6.6. and <HI>Drunkards</HI> made a Song on him, and &s;ome &s;hut out their tongues, and wagged their heads and gaped upon him with their mouths, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 64. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 122.7. and this you Sing in your Steeple hou&s;es like Hypocrites without knowledg, <HI>P&s;alms</HI> 35. i6. and yet &s;coffe and &s;corn and reproach tho&s;e in whom the &s;ame Power is made manife&s;t and yet you will &s;ay as he &s;aid, <HI>you are not puffed in mind, nor have no &s;cornfull eye, &amp;c.</HI> but he &s;poke the truth, and you lye, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> i31.1. and thus you deceive your &s;ouls and loves to have it &s;o, your leaders cau&s;e you to erre, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 9.16. and <HI>Iob</HI> a Servant of the <HI>Lord</HI> quaked, who by the &s;ame generation was laughed to &s;corn, <HI>Iob</HI> 4. i4. <HI>Iob</HI> i2. i4. and <HI>Ieremi|ah,</HI> a Prophet of the Lord quaked, who was then per&s;ecuted by the &s;ame <HI>generation Ier.</HI> 23.9. and <HI>Daniel</HI> a <HI>Prophet</HI> of the <HI>Lord</HI> trembled, who was ca&s;t into the <HI>Lyons Den,</HI> becau&s;e he would not deny his <HI>God, Dan.</HI> i0, ii. <HI>Dan.</HI> 6.16. but by his power he was pre&s;erved, as we are now from tho&s;e <HI>Lyons whelps</HI> who would us devour; and <HI>Habbkkauk</HI> a Prophet of the Lord his belly trembled, and his lips quivered, <HI>Hab.</HI> 3. i6. and <HI>Paul</HI> an Apo|&s;tle of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t fell down and trembled, <HI>Act.</HI> 9.4.5.6. who was re|viled, reproached, and per&s;ecuted even to death, who was one that ha|zarded his life for the name of Ie&s;us, <HI>Act.</HI> 6.26. and &s;aid all the day long was they killed, and accounted as &s;heep to the &s;laughter, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.36.
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now the&s;e was all quakers, who then &s;uffered with patience by the &s;ame generation, now read what generation you are of, for they that were af|ter the fle&s;h allways per&s;ecuted them that were after the Spirit, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.29. there was always a generation by which the righteous ever &s;uffered &s;ince Cain the fyr&s;t born upon earth, in who&s;e way you are found, who envy, who are in the wrath, <HI>Iude</HI> 10. you kill the ju&s;t, and he lyes &s;lain in the &s;treets, <HI>Iam.</HI> 5.5, 6. at who&s;e hands his blood &s;hal be requited. <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.35. and the Son of man was to eat his bread with quaking, and drink his water with trembling, <HI>Ezek.</HI> i2. i0. out of which life you are found, who are at ea&s;e in the fle&s;h, feeding without the fear of God, &s;pending the Creatures upon your lu&s;ts, i <HI>Cor.</HI> i0.7. <HI>Iam.</HI> 5 &s;coffing and &s;corning them who are not one with you in the &s;ame liberty, but fears before the Throne of God, i <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.4. <HI>Rom.</HI> i3, i4. i <HI>Cor.</HI> i0.3i. and thus you erre, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God, <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.29. there|fore behold, ye de&s;pi&s;ers and wonderers, and peri&s;h, I will work a work in your days, which though you &s;ee it, you &s;hall not believe it, <HI>Act.</HI> i3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">i. is it not apparent before your eyes, the wicked man returns from his wickedne&s;s, and the ungodly from his ungodline&s;s and the drunkard from his drunkenne&s;s, and the prophane one from his prophainne&s;s, and now &s;eeks after God, and feare his powerfull name, and this you &s;ee and cannot believe, but de&s;pi&s;es, &s;coffs &amp; &s;corns the power by which this work is done, for it is no new thing but the &s;ame which was and are, you are in the &s;ame adulterous generation, which cannot &s;ee the Signes which follow the truth, <HI>Mat.</HI> i6.3, 4. from whom the Go&s;pel is hid, who&s;e eye is darkned with the God of the world, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.3, 4. and &s;o &s;peaks evil of the things you know not, <HI>Iude</HI> ii. putting darkne&s;s for light, and light for darkne&s;s, evill for good, and good for evill, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 5.20. you are the &s;coffers that the Apo&s;tle fore-told of to be in the la&s;t times, <HI>Iude,</HI> i8. who are de&s;pi&s;ers of tho&s;e that are good, incontinent, fierce, Traitor, heady, high minded, lovers of plea&s;ures more than lovers of God, having a form of godline&s;s, but deny the life and powers, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.3, 4, 5. and here you are both Prie&s;ts, people, and profe&s;&s;ors, who are &s;coffing and &s;corning, &s;landring, reproach, reviling, and per&s;ecuting the righteous innocent &s;ervants and me&s;&s;engers of the mo&s;t high God, who is uttering forth his voyce through them in power, again&s;t all ungodline&s;s and un|righteou&s;ne&s;s of men, who will you call to judgment, and convince you of all your ungodly deeds, and all your hard &s;peeches, which you have wrongfully &s;poken again&s;t him and his power, and will reward you ac|cordingly, <HI>Iude</HI> i4, i5. <HI>Rev.</HI> 22.2i. Therefore to that which is of God in all your con&s;ciences I &s;peak, which is my witne&s;s again&s;t your ungodly lives, which turning your minds to it, and unto it taking heed, will let you &s;ee you &s;peak evill of the things you know not, loving darkne&s;s ra|ther than light, becau&s;e your deeds are evill, <HI>Iob.</HI> 3. i9. therefore fear the Lord God and repent, and take heed of mocking, lea&s;t your bonds
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be made &s;trong. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 28.22. for God will not be mocked, &s;uch as you &s;owe, &s;uch mu&s;t you reap, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6.7. therefore fear before the Lord, and try all things, and hold fa&s;t that which is good, i <HI>The&s;.</HI> 5.2i. and de&s;pi&s;e nothing before you know it, lea&s;t you &s;peak evill of Gods elect, for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, <HI>Heb.</HI> i0.3i. there|fore take this for a warning, as from the mouth of the Lord, for no ig|norance is to be pleaded before the throne of God.</P>
<P>This was given forth in vindication of the power of God, which is now ma|nife&s;ting in his Sons and Daughters, lea&s;t the &s;imple who are not yet ac|quainted with it, &s;hould &s;tumble at the name.</P>
<P>By a friend of the truth and a lover of the&s;e people, which you who are out of the truth &s;cornfully call quakers, but the &s;corners God will judge, and the righteous God will ble&s;s who work out their &s;alvation with fear and trem|bling, for &s;aith the Lord, to &s;uch a one wil I look, that is of a humble and contrite &s;pirit, and trembleth at my words, <HI>Pro. i9.29. Phil. 2. i2 I&s;a. 66. i, 2.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>IAMES PARNEL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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