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<P>A FEW LINES MORE For thee O ENGLAND <HI>And for thy Lofty ones in thee,</HI> And for all others of thine IN HABITANTS, vven forth and &s;ent abroad into the world, with two letters, for the comfort and con&s;olation of the per&s;ecuted Church in God, and for the tribulated Flock in Chri&s;t, and mour|ners among&s;t them, where&s;oever they be. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>the end the Children of Light, and all they that hunger and thir&s;t, af|ter righteou&s;nes, may be comforted, and refreshed (in God) in the midde&s;t and depth, of all their per&s;ecutions, tribulations, &s;uffer|ings, and afflictions, that they may yet meet withall, from wicked, cruel and unrea&s;onable men, who take delight to crucifie the Lord of life, light, and Glory, a fresh, and put him to open shame in his people.</HI> Al&s;o a few lines for the wicked People, and powers of the World, with &s;ome whol&s;ome Councel and good advice, given unto me, from the Lord God Al|mighty, to give unto them, (e&s;pecially unto the people, and powers of England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland and Germany, where the name of God hath been and is &s;o emenently profe&s;&s;ed, and &s;o great a reformation pretended) that &s;o they may all hearken, unto hear, and obey, the voyce of God; and &s;o live in love and peace (out of per&s;ecution) and at la&s;t &s;it down in the Kingdom of glory, with Abra|ham, I&s;aac, and Iacob.</P>
<Q><P><HI>And therefore, and pray (that can) that ye enter not into temptations, for a work of wonders, is the Lord my God farther a doing in, and upon the Earth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And for all you Loftyons of the Earth that rebell again&s;t God, know that except you repent, you shall likewi&s;e perrish,</HI> <BIBL><HI>Luke</HI> 13. <HI>ver.</HI> 3. <HI>and</HI> 5.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><HI>And the Lord shall cut of all flattering lips (and) the tongue that &s;peaketh proud things,</HI> <BIBL><HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 12. <HI>ver. the</HI> 3. <HI>as he hath hither to done.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<HEAD>An Epi&s;tle to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>LEt this &s;erve as a warning and as an invitation of love, for all people (great and &s;mall, high and loe, rich and poor, old and young, profe&s;&s;ors and prophane, to turn you all (that are not yet turned) unto the living God, for it is brought forth (to publique view) in its appointed &s;ea&s;on, and time, part whereof, is already fullfilled; and the remainder, is fullfilling apace, yee in our dayes, and age.</P>
<P>Watch therefore and pray (that can) that you enter not into temp|tation, for the Lord God Almighty hath not forgotten to be graci|ous, nor hath his compa&s;&s;ions at any time, failed any of the &s;onnes and daughters of men, that have turned unto him, and walked, and abode in his light, life and dostrine.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e &s;ome of you (in <HI>England</HI>) &amp;c. have mi&s;&s;pent your pre|cious time, in makeing a mock of &s;in. And have made an ill u&s;e of your &s;tewardships, in the ill management of your affairs, &s;o merci|fully, friendly, and favourably put into your hands, therefore, is this (mo&s;t principally) directed unto you, to let you know, that God is angry with you, and that he will (ere long) be avenged on you, for you in <HI>England,</HI> hath the Lord God began vvithall fir&s;t: And there vvill the Lord <HI>Jehovah</HI> make his name famous, and everla&s;t|ingly Glorious; al&s;o God hath, and vvill vvork vvonders there, as vvell as in other places, and none shall let, or &s;ay vvhat do&s;t thou.</P>
<P>Friends, be not angry, nor partial, vvho ever you be, that hear or read this; And be not deceived, God is not mocked, <HI>Gal. 6. ver. 7.</HI> But in the light of the Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;ee vvhither you have not almo&s;t &s;inned avvay your mo&s;t precious time, and trifled a|way the dayes of your vi&s;itation, in all manner of exce&s;s: And for you that have not &s;o &s;pent your precious time, that Gods &s;pirit hath not done &s;triving in you, or vvith you (and you are not be|come as <HI>Pharoahs.</HI>) then turn you unto the light, within you, and obey the voice of God in you, for that is it, which vvill lead you into the li|ving life, if you be found faithful to God for that light in you, vvhither you knovv, or believe in it, or no, is of God, &amp; it is that in man, vvhich shevveth man, good and evil, and it vvill one day Judge you, and if
<PB REF="3">you doe but a little con&s;ider, it will now shew you vvhat you are.</P>
<P>And what you have been, and then, if you, or any of you, that have been, and are, abominable &s;inners, shall in the true light and &s;ence of your conditions, cleave unto God, and for &s;ake your &s;ins, and all your abominable doings, then shall you &s;oon know a curb to your lu&s;ts and wicked wills, and &s;uch of you, as shall thus truly turn unto God, and follovv him, you shall quickly come to know, feel, and &s;ee, a bridle to your Tongues, and vvhat it is to be made partakers of the glory of the Lord, in the Land of the living; for the living be they, that shall prai&s;e thee o God, vvhen the dead (though alive) and them in the grave (though once never &s;o mighty and great,) cannot, for the dead be they that shall hear the voyce of the &s;on of God, and they that hear, and obey God, shall live forever and ever, vvorld vvithout End, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>And now my Friends (every vvhere) Ari&s;e from the dead; and come forth, and &s;ing, all ye that dwell in the du&s;t, for God is Ju&s;t, and the Avenger he is, of the cau&s;e of the innocent, who hath often times &s;ealed the deliverance of his people unto mee; and I am &s;ure that God is rode forth Conquerring, and to Conquer, all the vvorld over, and to make a short vvork in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, upon the Earth; And God it is, in Men, Women, and Children, (every vvhere) that calleth them to a turning unto him&s;elfe, and to repentance from dead works, and to a &s;easing from &s;in, that &s;o they may &s;erve the living God in newne&s;s of life, and vvalking uprightly before God, in true holi|ne&s;&s;e, peace and righteou&s;ne&s;s, all the dayes of their lives, vvhich many have promi&s;ed God &s;o to doe, in the dayes of their di&s;tre&s;&s;es, but &s;ome of them, have forgotten that, and &s;o have &s;inned again&s;t light, as well now, as formerly, in runing a whoring after their own inventions, lu&s;ts, and immaginations &amp;c. And thus they have and doe provoke the ju&s;t and Iealous God, of Heaven and Earth, to vvrath again&s;t them, who is not &s;lack in ju&s;tice, and judgment.</P>
<P>And therefore I plainly, tell you, who ever you are, that your going on in &s;in, have and will be your mi&s;&s;ery, &amp; your not &s;ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ing from per&s;ecution, &s;uper|&s;tition, &s;in, &amp; Idolitry is that which have provoked the ju&s;t and jealous God, to wrath, judgement, and indignation again&s;t you, I &s;ay, God is now, as well as of old, jealous of his name in the children of Men, and his Glory. He will not give to graven immages, though many now adaies &s;o do, (mark
<PB REF="3">that.) For &s;uch do dayly per&s;ecute and afflicting the children of the mo&s;t high God, (that God,) which heareth and an&s;wereth prayers, who hath heard and an&s;wered his people, and God the mighty Iehovah, hath diverted, as well as revealed many of your &s;ecret and bloody intents, and &s;o he will do againe, and though you in England, and the potentates of the world, should yet make farther confedracies, and decrees again&s;t the People and children of God (untill Gods decree, be accomplished) which you will do, yet know that God will, in &s;pite, of you, and all the powers, and Prie&s;ts of the Earth: execute his judgements written, which are herein declared.</P>
<P>And as for you the People and Povvers in <HI>England &amp;c.</HI> You have made &s;trange idols, and acted contrary to your oaths, vows, promi&s;es, prote&s;tations, declarations. Letters, and proclamations, and thus have you hitherto dayly provoked God, by your neglecting to heare his voyce, and in contemning the word of God, which commeth out of the mouths of his &s;ons and daughters.</P>
<P>Now thus have many of you in <HI>England,</HI> already di&s;covered your &s;elves in making Ship rack of faith, and of a good con&s;cience, (which is a shame) for that will not in the least help to &s;ave you, in the day of Gods vengance, nor will your making havock of the people, and flock of God, do you the lea&s;t good in the world, as to your pre&s;ervation, and deliverance, when God shall make inqui&s;ition for true, Royall, and innocent blood; Though many of you, may be yet &s;uffered to go on, in your Road, plotting, and de&s;igning, and others of you per&s;ecuting, killing, and imlpri&s;oning the children of light (a while longer) yet know, that God is, and will be ju&s;t, who will call every one to an account for all his or their deeds done in the flesh, whither they be good or evill, and for you that oppre&s;s the &s;eed of God in your own particulars al&s;o in others take heed of &s;o doing, for in &s;o doing, you have grieved per&s;ecuted, and &s;mitten the ju&s;t one, for which, Gods controver&s;ie hath been, and &s;till is with you (that &s;o do) for &s;uch things have been, and are grievous in Gods &s;ight. And while you thus mi&s;u&s;e your &s;elves, and abu&s;e others, you your &s;elves defile the Temples of God, within you; for which the Lord God Almighty (if you &s;o continue,) will you de&s;troy, for it was written by the <HI>Prophets</HI> of old (as well as now.) Them will God de&s;troy that defileth the <HI>Temples</HI> of God.</P>
<P>Woe woe woe therefore will be unto &s;uch as &s;o doe, and now I am a&s;&s;ured that Heaven and earth shal pa&s;s avvay, before one Iot or tittle of Gods vvord, thus revealed, and &s;poken in and to mee shall fail, and as &s;ure as the Lord liveth, there vvill that come upon many of you, in poore <HI>England &amp;c.</HI> (of a &s;udden) that repent not, and turn not unto the living God, that vvill amaze you, and Astonish, and confound many el&s;where
<PB REF="4">and doe you all the world over, what you can, deliverance mu&s;t, and shall come, unto the remnant of <HI>Iacob;</HI> and this the Eternall God, hath &s;ealed unto me, with much of the manner, way, and method Thereof.</P>
<P>Therefore is this &s;ent forth among&s;t you the &s;onnes and daughters of men, as another invitation, and warning, Believing, and knowing, that &s;ome thing els will (Ere long) follow, wherein the wickedne&s;s of the wicked in <HI>Eng|land. &amp;c.</HI> will be further di&s;covered, and laid open, with a farther demon|&s;tration of the my&s;tery of things, and for what the judgements of God have been executed, and are executing upon the inhabitants of the whole Earth. And in the mean time, be &s;till, all ye children of light, and mour|ners in <HI>Sion,</HI> for God &s;eeth, &amp; beholdeth your conditions, &amp; will deliver you.</P>
<P>And now rejoyce in God all you (that can) and in the Lord <HI>Jehovah,</HI> make melody in your hearts, when you &s;ee this; I &s;ay againe in the &s;trength of the Lord God, rejoyce, for the Lord <HI>Jehovah</HI> is nigh at hand, to judgment, and for it, he is worthy of all pray&s;e, glory, and honour, now hence forth and for evermore Amen; let our conditions be what they will, out of &s;in.</P>
<P>Feare not therefore little flock: for it is our fathers good will and plea&s;ure to give unto us the Kingdome, that fadeth not away. That Kingdome, which cannot be removed, its as mount <HI>Sion.</HI></P>
<P>And as for the mockers, &s;corners, &s;coffers, per&s;ecuters, plotters, blood &s;uckers &amp;c. a &s;ad and lack day is come, and coming upon you, as well as a day of redemption and deliverance (in God, for Gods poore di&s;pi&s;ed and inno|cent people) the fight whereof from God, hath often times made me to re|joyce, with joy un&s;peakable, and full of glory. And to water my pillow (many a time) with tears of joy, al&s;o the lamentation and mourning (from God) that I have been made to take up, for thee, and for thine inhabitants <HI>(O poor England &amp;c.)</HI> have been more then I shall, at pre&s;ent perticulerly expre&s;s, for &s;ome of your de&s;tructions, will be little inferiour unto that off <HI>Sodom. Gomoroah,</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>Friends, you in <HI>England</HI> (not long ago,) were a field of blood &s;ince that, your mercies have been great, ye as great, as ever any peoples, nations, Kings, or Kingdomes was, and you in <HI>England</HI> may be &s;aid to be a people and land, flowing with milk and hony; Though many of you, now there, have (viz) &s;pent Gods creatures, upon your lu&s;ts. &amp;c.</P>
<P>O how evilly, and unjustly have you requited the Lord God for all his mercies, to you wards, and how evilly have you (in <HI>England Ireland,</HI> and
<PB REF="4"><HI>Scotland.</HI> (and el&s;e where) intreated Gods poor and innocent people, let the God of heaven and earth, and all &s;ober people, (unto whom I do Appeal) be judg, yea and the witne&s;s of God in your &s;elves, and in the con&s;ciences of all men, yea in the wickede&s;t, and vilde&s;t men that are, for that, (if not &s;eared), will &s;peak. And now take heed of lu&s;ting, revenge, lying, hardnes of heart, and unbeliefe, for that will carry you, the children of men, into confu&s;ion &amp;c. and make you that yield thereunto, to run, farther and farther, from the living God, into &s;inne, untill you are &s;eared, and wholy given over unto de&s;truction, (Mark that,)</P>
<P>Againe take heed all you profe&s;&s;ors, as well as prophane, for there is yee a great fault amongst you all: your yee, is not yee, nor is your nay, nay, therfore is God angry with you, and di&s;plea&s;ed at your doings; ye at the evill of your doings, and practices.</P>
<P>Friends, this is plain dealings with the Children of men, and Coun&s;ell for a King, as well as for a Bagger, much of it, being from the Lord God, through a poor Earthen ve&s;&s;el, and one that is a &s;ervant of <HI>Jehovah,</HI> who is Re|deemed from death, to life, by the power and Spirit of God, in the blood of <HI>Je&s;us:</HI> who &s;ub&s;cribes him&s;elfe,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>your Friend. <HI>Emmanuel I&s;raelite. Which by Interpretation, is God vvith me, God vvith us, in vvhom there is no guile.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>1662. <HI>A letter of Comfort and con&s;olation unto the whole flock of Chri&s;t, where&s;oever they be.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dearely beloved:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>A By de &s;tedfa&s;t in mount Sion; for they that &s;o do, shall never be removed, for the Church in God, is the ground and piller of truth: from whence I am moved of the Lord God everla|&s;ting, to write a few lines unto you, And to the whole I&s;rael of God, and though I have a long time forborne it, and have as it were &s;trugled again&s;t it, yet my life and love is with you, and among&s;t you, all the world over, and in the Eternall light and love of God, do I dearly &s;alute you all.</P>
<P>Friends, your lives in God, are a joy, and refreshing unto me, even in the mide&s;t of all that unhumane, and uncea&s;onable dealings, that you do, And vvee may, yet farther meet vvith all, in this pre&s;ent evill earthly vvorld, from cruel, marciles, and unrea&s;onable men, vvho have no mercy.</P>
<P>Therefore, O Lord God everla&s;ting, keep us thy babes and lambs and pre&s;erve us pure, that &s;o our offrings unto thee (may be as they are, vvhen thou calle&s;t for them) a continual &s;vveet &s;avour, for in thy life do vve live, and in it, is our unity.</P>
<P>O Lord our all is offred up unto thee. Thou art our Saviour, Re|deemer, and deliverer, vve are thy people and heritage, plead thou therefore (O Lord,) thine ovvn cau&s;e, vvhich thou ha&s;t ingaged us in; vve mu&s;t die. And becau&s;e thou live&s;t, doe vvee therefore live vvith and in thee, and &s;o shall vvee do, novv and for ever and ever, vvorld vvithout end.</P>
<P>And novv vvhile vve are here, &amp; do cary about in us, a body of clay, let us in the life, light, povver, and &s;trength of God, be ever doing our Fathers vvill, and as much good on earth as vve can; All flesh is as gra&s;s, and fadeth avvay, our &s;trength is to &s;it &s;till; God is vvith us, and in us, of a truth, and he vvill deliver us I am &s;ure.</P>
<P>Look not out therefore any of you, O my dear friends, brethren, and &s;i&s;ters: But &s;inke dovvn, &s;inke dovvn into the depth of the Lord God of life, and therein &s;tand &s;tedfa&s;t, and plead in and vvith him,
<PB REF="5">for as God hath, &s;o vvill he a&s;uredly here and an&s;vver (his people) and deliver us, and confound our enemies, as he did of Old.</P>
<P>For the Prayers, Sighs, Grones, Suplications, Cries, Tears, and oppre&s;&s;ions of the poor, and innocent; have ofttengon up unto the Almighty, and they do dayly reach to heaven, and God is come, and coming down to deliver us, his people, and to &s;ave us, in the mid|e&s;t of all our tribulations: God is ri&s;en to plead our cau&s;e. Be there|fore valiant in the Lord, &s;trong, and of a good couradge; &s;o fare yee well</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>yours in truth: <HI>Emmanuel I&s;raeliete.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>Friends and Brethren, this inclo&s;ed have laine (&s;ome part of it) as a thing lo&s;t, buried, &amp; hid for &s;ome time (as you may &s;ee,) but it is now come to lightagaine; And is &s;ent unto you.</P>
<P>Therefore do with it, O Lord God of ho&s;ts, as &s;eemeth good in thine own eyes, thy &s;eerets (O Lord of Ho&s;ts,) &amp; God of Life, are with them that feare thee, and thy wi&s;dom is given unto thy cho&s;en ones, to di|rect them; the Spirit of the Almighty is free in his people, that walk and abyde in his light; to coun&s;ell, guide, lead, teach, and direct them, in all their wayes and undertakings for God, and as you find freedom in the Eternall Spirit; &s;o let this be done with all; Either to imbrace it; or not, Friends, I'am and shall be (in the Lord) a fellow feeler and &s;ympathizer with you, in what &s;o ever you do, and &s;uffer, for the Lord; for in God alone, is our victory, over all; in which victory, let us &s;tand, triumph and rejoyce, and there in shall we trample on and tread under foot, our greate&s;t Enemies, yee Sathan, the Father of them all.</P>
<P>And as it is written, &s;o shall it be, the la&s;t enemy that shall be de|&s;troyed is death, and vvhen our vvorke is done, vvee mu&s;t goe from hence, and vvee shall be changed; (but not dye) and that in a moment and twinckling of an Eye.</P>
<P>And in the unchangable God, dearely beloved Brethren, doe I dearly &s;alute you, and remain, your friend and Brother, in the unity of the eternall Spirit, and life of God, vvhere I shall for ever be and remaine, your Friend, yee and a Friend to publicans, and &s;inners.</P>
<P><HI>po&s;cript.</HI></P>
<P>Friends Golden &s;nares and bayts are laid, and laying for you to lift you up, out of the deapth, Holine&s;s, and vvi&s;dom, of the mo&s;t high,
<PB REF="6">even vvhile the flesh and the lu&s;ts therein, doe fortifie, and fit it &s;elfe, for your bodily de&s;truction.</P>
<P>Abyde &s;till therefore in the dominion of God, and he vvill not on|ly give you to &s;ee, vvhat is a doing on earth again&s;t you; but vvhat he is al&s;o a doing in heaven, for your pre&s;ervation and deliverance, vvhich is, and mu&s;t be in God, over all.</P>
<P>That being unto God a dayly delight, and a joy, for God in us, is and vvill be, (unto them that love us not) a burthen&s;ome &s;tone that vvill fall upon our enemies, and breake them in peices, and grind them to povvder, vvithout our u&s;ing of any Carnall vveapons.</P>
<P>O live therefore the life that's everla&s;ting, and abyde in it, for therein shall you Raign over all that is evil, for ever and ever.</P>
<P>And novv let none make us affraid, for vvhen any do let in fear, that bringeth the righteous into &s;nares.</P>
<P>Be therefore terrifyed in nothing, for you are Gods, and God is yours, to his everla&s;ting prai&s;e doe I &s;peake it, and re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend, Emmanuel I&s;raelite.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Letter for the per&s;ecuted Church in God, and for the tribulated flock of Chri&s;t where &s;oever they bee, and for the mourners among&s;t them.</HI></HEAD>
<P>O Sonnes, and Daughters, of Sion, lift up your hearts, heads, and hands, unto the holy Lord, God, Almighty, and in his pure and everla&s;ting life, light, power, and &s;trength, crie aloud, day and night, unto the mo&s;t high, for the holy, and righteous God, is Jealous of his name in you, and ble&s;&s;ed are all they that are not offended in him, and are not at ea&s;e in Sion, while there are any mourners therein.</P>
<P>And if it be &s;o with any of you, as I know and believeit is, that many of you are already, entred into your re&s;t, as God is entred into his re&s;t, then shall your worke, and La|bour of love in the Lord not be in vaine, but it will be taken notice of, and accepted of by the Lord, and then shall you be more, and oftener in the &s;ervice of the living God, then ever, as I hope, and believe you will be, and you (that can), for get not the Angell <HI>Gabriel,</HI> who&s;e work and &s;ervice is not unknowne; Oh watchmen, watchmen, what of the night, lets give our God, no re&s;t, untill he hath brought up all the mour|ners in Sion, unto a continuall rejoycing, in the one eternall, and everla&s;ting unity, where there is nothing but the unutterable Ioys of heaven, and that in the clo&s;e&s;t, harde&s;t and mo&s;t dificult &s;ervice (for the living God) that is, Oh my Friends, the battell is ours all ready, onely our Father is, will, and mu&s;t be, &s;upream head and Governour.</P>
<P>And therefore he will be &s;ought unto (night and day) by the hou&s;e of I&s;rael, and by every individuall member therein, watch therefore in God, and in him, let us always pray and ever more rejoyce, and now take heed all ye my dear Friends, Bretheren, and Si&s;ters, of negligence, and of &s;lothfullne&s;&s;e, in bu&s;ine&s;s, and of drawing back from the &s;ervice of the living God, into wayes of &s;in and perdition, for if any &s;o doe, the Lords &s;oule will have no plea&s;ure in them; Therefore have a care my deare Friends and &s;o run, that you may obtaine, for there is a victory (but it is in God) in which victory; there is a conque&s;t over &s;in, death, hell, and the grave, and a continuall living in and an Abyding with God, as in the begining, yee and in a more unutterable, and glorious &s;tate then Paradice, O my tongue cannot declare the glory, endle&s;ne&s;s and unutterablene&s;&s;e thereof. The whole is the glory of God; and that through mercy I have, and doe injoy a mea&s;ure off, and had I the tongue of men, and Angels, I were not able to declare the whole; its endle&s;s, and Fathomle&s;s, yea its pa&s;t finding out; But the babe of glory, (thats faithfull) shall live in, and abide in it, here, and for ever, world without end.</P>
<P>And in this life, is the glory, honour, and renown, that God will cloath his withall and in time, he will make all his as the Lillie, which doth neither toyle nor &s;pin; but yet doth grow up and Pro&s;per; Oh what shall I &s;ay, my tongue is not able to expre&s;s the infinit glory that is in God for all them that love, and fear, his holy &amp; glorious name, and now the burthen that I have on me for the whole creations deliverance, is unknown for my bowels and all that is within mee, do earn after, yee after all them that do hun|ger and thir&s;t after the righteou&s;ne&s;s of the living God, that &s;o they may all be brought into the knowledge, and enjoyment of the one onely true way, and into that sheepe fold (vvhich is the light Chri&s;t) vvhich leadeth into the life of God, thats Eternall immortall, and everla&s;ting, for God is the vvay, the truth, and the life.
<PB REF="7">al&s;o there is a care, in mee that none be lo&s;t, and a &s;ympathy and fellow feeling in me of &s;ome, that through negligence &amp;c. are apt to draw back from the &s;ervice of the living God, in the &s;ence and feeling thereof, God hath inclined my heart, and moved me to write the&s;e Letters &amp;c. and commanded me to &s;end them forth among&s;t you, the &s;onnes and daughters of men, that &s;o your rejoycing may be in the Lord, over all.</P>
<P>Friends, the&s;e are dayes of tryalls, and of Winnowings, and &s;iftings, that &s;o the Temples of God may be made clean, and may no more be defiled, nor any Mony|changers &s;uffered to dwell, or abide therein, for all that defileth the Temples of God, mu&s;t be whipped, and &s;courged out, for, that will God de&s;troy, yea all that letteth mu&s;t be taken out of the way, al&s;o all that worketh, or maketh a lie, for greedy gain, and filthy lucre; That &s;o God may be (as he is) all and in all, unto them that truly know, love, feele, and feare, his holy, ble&s;&s;ed, and glorious name.</P>
<P>Therefore my deare friends, Brethren, and Si&s;ters, and all others that would be accounted Chri&s;tians, learn to know, and do the will of God, which is Sanctification in the cro&s;s, unto all that is not of God.</P>
<P>And now let all &s;uch as profe&s;s them&s;elves to be wi&s;doms children, walk in the light, in all things, as he (to wit) Chri&s;t, is in the light, that &s;o you may all Iu&s;tifie wi&s;dom, and thereby, manife&s;t your &s;elves to be the children of the mo&s;t high, in deed, and in truth, Chri&s;tians indeed, like God, and Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Then shall the mouth of iniquitie be &s;topt, &amp; you shall &s;ee, feel, and know God, exalted, and exalting him&s;elfe in you, over all that's humane, and &s;etting him&s;elf in you, upon the top of all mountaines; And then shall you know, feel, and &s;ee, God reigning, and ruling in, and over you, his temples (not made with hands) for ever and ever, al&s;o you shall then know him to lead, guid, govern, teach, and direct you, in every thing you doe; di&s;tinct, from Satan, and then Satans workes will be known unto you, as they are unto God; a Loathing, and an Abomination.</P>
<P>And though as yet, &s;ome of you have not known, witne&s;&s;ed, nor felt God, &s;o to reign and rule &amp;c. in and over you, yet God will, in patience po&s;e&s;s your &s;oules; Therefore in the light of God, (&s;ay I, againe) wait and be &s;till, that at all times you may know, and heare the voyce of God in you, from Satans; and feel the power of God in you, that re&s;i&s;teth evill, and the Appearances, and motiones, thereof, for that onely, will make the evill one to flie; It's God <HI>Emmanuel,</HI> God with, and in us.</P>
<P>Then shall you be kept alive in God, and in perfect peace who&s;e mindes are &s;tayed on thee, O God of life light, &s;trengh, power, and glory, yee in that peace (and domi|nion over all deceit) that pa&s;&s;eth all under&s;tanding, which will continually keep your hearts and mindes alive, in the knowledge and love of God, Amen. &s;o fare ye well.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>This Letter was written <DATE>the latter end of the Sixth moneth 1662.</DATE> <HI>and &s;ent from farre; with the re&s;t of the&s;e things into</HI> England.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>From him thats yours, in him thats ever la&s;ting, God ble&s;&s;ed for ever and ever, world without end, Amen. <HI>Emmanuel I&s;raelite,</HI> The name of the Lord (is now, as well as of old) a &s;trong Tower, the Righteous flye into it, and are &s;afe.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Few Lines more for thee O</HI> England, <HI>and for thy lofty ones in thee, and for all others, of thine inhabitants, al&s;o for the inhabitants of the whole Earth.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friends.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lord God Almighty, hath in the&s;e latter days, rai&s;ed up <HI>Prophets</HI> as of Old, to tell you, and to foretell you, what have, and vvill befall you, as it hath befallen them, that vvent before you, yet many of you that are now alive, (and in power) will not hear, nor believe them, no more then they would, that went before you, nor vvill you obey the word of the living God, nor hearken too, nor hear his voice, as you ought to do, but you will harden your hearts, as they of Old did (in the wilderne&s;&s;e,) vvhen your Fathers tempted him.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e many of you novv in <HI>England,</HI> and El&s;e-where, will not believe the word of the Lord, out of the mouthes; of his &s;ervants and <HI>Prophets;</HI> but are Curious and unbelieving, what the <HI>Prophets</HI> and &s;ervants of the Lord, have already &s;aid unto you, should come.</P>
<P>Therefore hath the Lord God Almighty &s;uffered &s;ignes, miracles, and wonders, upon the Earth, and in the Ayre, both lying ones, and true, and all this is to convince you, that are unbelievers, of the great Judgments of the Lord God, that are nigh at hand, come, and coming, among&s;t, and upon you the Inhabitants of the Earth.</P>
<P>And as <HI>Nebuchadnezzer, Belshazzer,</HI> and <HI>Darius,</HI> Kings of <HI>Babylon</HI> did, even &s;o have &s;ome great ones among&s;t you in <HI>England</HI> done (viz.) &s;ent for <HI>A&s;trologers, South&s;ayers, Socerers,</HI> and <HI>Magitians, Wi&s;emen &amp;c.</HI> to come unto you, commanding them, to tell you the meaning of tho&s;e &s;trange, and wonderfull <HI>Appearances,</HI> and <HI>Appari|tions</HI> that have been &s;een (by many), upon the Earth, and in the Ayre, in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Wiles,</HI> and El&s;e-where; But when the <HI>Magitians, South&s;ayers, Socerers,</HI> and <HI>A&s;trologers, Wi&s;emen,</HI> (&s;o called) could not tell the&s;e Kings the meaning of tho&s;e wonderfull things, that had then appeared, though they were &s;ent for, on purpo&s;e to tell them, the meaning, and interpretation of their Vi&s;ions and Dreames, al&s;o to read and interpret, the &s;trange vvritting, that had appeared, and to tell
<PB REF="8">them the meaning thereof; But when tho&s;e <HI>Wi&s;e-men</HI> that the King &s;ent for, could not Read the writting, nor tell King <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> the interpretation of his Vi&s;ions and Dreams.</P>
<P>Then was the <HI>Prophet Daniel</HI> &s;poken of, after which, the King com|manded the Captain to fetch <HI>Daniel</HI> unto him, and when <HI>Daniel</HI> came before the King <HI>Nebuchadnezzar,</HI> then &s;aid the King, thou art greatly beloved of God, tell me therefore, (if thou can&s;t,) the meaning and interpretation of tho&s;e Dreams and Vi&s;ions of the night, which haveappeared unto me, al&s;o read the writting, and tell me the mean|ing thereof.</P>
<P>Now (mark) <HI>Daniel</HI> was not ha&s;ty to an&s;wer the King in the&s;e things; nor was hee, though a <HI>Prophet</HI> of God and filled with the Spirit of the holy God) &s;wift in &s;peaking unto this great King, nor did the <HI>Prophet,</HI> when he did &s;peak, tell the King any thing, but the truth, and that which God gave him a perfect and cleare &s;ight of, and then, with holy booldne&s;s (in no &s;mall authority) did <HI>Daniel</HI> tell the King, the meaning and the interpretation of the whole matter.</P>
<P>Farther <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;pake of great and wonderfull things that God had then given him to behold and &s;ee; But neither the King, councellers, prei&s;ts, not &s;ubjects under&s;tood him, nor do very many unto this day;</P>
<P>This <HI>Prophet</HI> of God, was then had in great E&s;teem by the King, for that of God which was manife&s;ted, by him, in &s;o much that <HI>Darius</HI> highly promoted, and greatly E&s;teemed him; &amp; &s;o did all &s;ave the evell and wicked <HI>Prie&s;ts, Coun&s;ellers,</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> &s;uch wicked ones, as had before in&s;tigated King <HI>Nebuchadnezzer,</HI> to throw <HI>Shadrach, Meshach,</HI> and <HI>Abednego,</HI> into the fiery furnace, only for their &s;peaking the truth unto all, (to wit) to the <HI>People, Prie&s;ts, Coun&s;ellers,</HI> and <HI>Kings;</HI></P>
<P>Now take notice and &s;ee; where any, of tho&s;e &s;ad things had ever come upon tho&s;e great Kings of <HI>Babylon;</HI> had they not &s;uffered the Children of the mo&s;t high God, to have been &s;o wickedly abu&s;ed, as they were;</P>
<P>But God is ju&s;t, and a recompeneer of every one according to his, or their deeds done in the flesh; whither they be good or evill, for Kings or Emperours mu&s;t, not thinke to e&s;cape the ju&s;t hand of God, though they may be above law, and out of the reach of man.</P>
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<P>And a ju&s;t recompence of reward; ye an exemplary one, doth God u&s;ually render unto every man that turneth not to him (in time) &amp; &s;uch was <HI>Belshazzars</HI> reward, for while he was Drinking wine in Booles, to the confu&s;ion of the God of the children of light, his Kingdome was taken from him, (mark that) And after him, &s;ucceeded King <HI>Darius,</HI> who had <HI>Daniel</HI> the <HI>Prophet</HI> in very great E&s;teem, yet how wickedly did, <HI>Darius</HI> and his evil coun&s;ellers Act, in making a Law, that none should (for forty daies pray, for any thing) &s;ave unto the King, and unto this decree, did <HI>Darius</HI> unwi&s;ely &s;igne, and when he had &s;o incon&s;idratly &s;igned, that Law, and decree, (Marke and &s;ee) what followed, They threvv <HI>Daniel</HI> the <HI>Prophet</HI> into the Lyons Den, onely for praying unto the God of light.</P>
<P>And hath not this been the wicked practices of the Kings, Coun&s;els, prie&s;ts, and powers of the Earth, unto this day; Yes, yes. it hath.</P>
<P>And no &s;ooner at any time, when light hath &s;prang up, and broke forth, and God rai&s;ed up <HI>Prophets</HI> and <HI>People</HI> unto him&s;elfe, then the powers of the Earth, both Kings <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> and Rulors, yee and &s;oldiers too; have combyned together, and taken coun&s;el, of the evill one, and one of another, and thereupon they have made decrees and laws, to throw in to holes, and dens, and to &s;tone, kill, burne, hang, frye, broile, banish, and to de&s;troy the <HI>Prophets,</HI> yee the true <HI>Prophets,</HI> children of light, who have not prove&s;ied, lyes in the Name of Ie&s;us (but truth,) nor have they divined for mony, nor preached for hire, nor for filthy Luker and Gayne, as per&s;ecutors, and blood|&s;uckers, belly-gods, and blind guides, do u&s;e to do. Who do greedily &s;eek at this very day and time, to devoure the flock of Chri&s;t; ye the true and lively flock and followers of God and Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Now is there not very great need, and nece&s;&s;ity, that you the people, and powers of the Earth, should be put in mind of the&s;e things;</P>
<P>Lea&s;t you should po&s;t altogether into blood, mi&s;ery, and confu&s;ion, and many of you goe headlong to Hell; for &s;uch Prie&s;t, &s;uch a &mdash; and People.</P>
<P>Be therefore warned &amp; intreated once more, you that Rule over men, to be ju&s;t, lo|ving, tender, kind, &amp; merciful; for the merciful, shall find mercy, and they that rule over men, should, and ought to be ju&s;t, and for the prai&s;e of them that do well, and for the punishment of evill doers; lea&s;t God &s;mite you with his &s;evere rod, and judgements, before you are willing, or are prepared for it.</P>
<P>And now you that rule for God, labour to feel the ble&s;&s;ing, in well doing; and to &s;ee how many have &s;uffered before your faces, for evill doing, and you that are in ad|ver&s;ity, as vvell as they that are in pro&s;perity, Con&s;ider. I be&s;eech you, what God re|quireth at your hands; al&s;o what he is now doing upon the Earth.</P>
<P>O that it might not be laid any more to your charge (you mighty and powerful men) the neglecting of your duties, vvhen you have had povver enough in your hands to do good, that then you have not done it. (But evill,) and thus evilly have yourequited God for all his kindne&s;s, love &amp; mercies, goodne&s;s, and good vvill, tovvards you.</P>
<P>Friends, have not &s;ome in the&s;e dayes bin beaten vvith many &s;tripes, and hovv can you your &s;elves think to e&s;cape the hand, and ju&s;t Judgments of the Lord God; &s;ure you cannot E&s;cape them. for Gods hand is &s;tretching out again&s;t you</P>
<P>Therefore all yee children of men, learn to know that God is good to I&s;rael, and unto them that are of a pure and upright heart, for a vvitne&s;s, yee a &s;vvife vvitne&s;s he is, and vvill be, again&s;t the evil ones E&s;pecially again&s;t the lofty ones of the Earth, that vvorke iniquity.</P>
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<P>And novv unto you, O <HI>People, Prie&s;ts, Kings,</HI> and <HI>Rulers,</HI> that have been in <HI>England</HI> vvithin this 20 years la&s;t pa&s;t, &amp; are now there.</P>
<P><HI>Query,</HI> Whither you have not found that to be true, vvhich the <HI>Pro|phets</HI> have &s;poken off, and foretold you, vvhat vvould come.</P>
<P>And as &s;ure as that is come, vvhich is already pa&s;t, &s;o &s;ure vvill the remainder of this Prophe&s;y, be fullfilled, and Heaven and Earth shall pa&s;s avvay before one Jot or tittle of the&s;e things shall faile; for &s;uch hath the Lord God Almighty ray&s;ed upin the mide&s;t of you, in the&s;e lat|ter dayes, that have told you, &amp; fore told you (from God) vvhat vvould come, and vvhat is coming among&s;t you, and upon you, and out of the mouthes of babes and &s;ucklings, vvill God perfect his prayes, for through &s;uch, hath the Lord God Almighty often &s;poken, to the for|mer <HI>Powers, Prie&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> &amp;c. As vvell as unto you; And unto you the <HI>Powers, Prie&s;ts,</HI> &amp; <HI>People,</HI> of <HI>Eng.</HI> (that now are) hath God &s;poken the&s;e things, that are come, and coming, upon you, and vvhil&s;t Gods judgements are upon the earth, the inhabitants thereof, should, and ought, to learn righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; for the Lord God hath &s;ent you in this ages, as vvell as them in other ages, many vvarnings by his &s;ervants the <HI>Prophets,</HI> though you the <HI>Prie&s;ts, Powers,</HI> and <HI>People</HI> of the Earth, have not heeded them as you ought to do (mark that) as vvell as vvhat follovveth.</P>
<P>For novv the Father of faithfullne&s;&s;e, (God) hath made, and is making good his vvord &s;poken by his <HI>Prophets</HI> of Old, (to vvit) that old Men should dreame dreames, al&s;o that young men should &s;ee vi|&s;ions, and that God vvould in the latter dayes, povver forth his Spirit aboundantly upon his Sonnes and Daughters, and inable, both Sons and hand-Mayds, to <HI>Prophe&s;ic,</HI> &s;peak, and vvrite, al&s;o that &s;ome in &s;eeing, should not &s;ee, and in hearing, they should not under&s;tand, &amp; as God the Father of faithfullnes, hath &s;poken, &s;o hath he made good his word &s;poken in all ages, and as God did of old &s;peak in &amp; unto his &s;er|vants the <HI>Prophets,</HI> even &s;o hath, &amp; did he &s;peak, in &amp; tome, (at &s;undry places,) and at &s;everal times in this latter age (in the&s;e particulers) to wit, in &s;peaking to, &amp; in foreshewing me, the dovvnfall of the old <HI>King of England, Charles the Fir&s;t,</HI> and many great ones more, the Rice and Fall of the <HI>Cromwels,</HI> the ruine of the <HI>Parliament</HI> and
<PB REF="9">Army telling them hovv often God vvould have gathered them to him&s;elf; even as a Henn gathereth her chickings, but they vvould not.</P>
<P>Novv marke and &s;ee vvhat follovved thereupon, nothing &s;ay I, but de&s;truction.</P>
<P>And as the High-Prie&s;ts, Seribes and Phari&s;es did, even &s;o have &s;ome latly done in <HI>England,</HI> I &s;ay they have given up the innocent People of God, into the hands of Rulers, and rude People, to be hardly dealt vvith all.</P>
<P>Such vvere they that Crucified and killed Chri&s;t, as had joyned them &s;elves unto idols, and vvere vvedded there unto, and re&s;olved they vvere, to goe on in there idolletry and vvill vvorship, untill God came dovvne vvith his &s;evere judgments upon them.</P>
<P>And though the vvicked may doe vvickedly for a vvhile, in la|bouring to keepe the ignorant, and &s;imple People in &s;in, &s;uper&s;tition and idolletry, ye and in blindne&s;s and darkne&s;s, &amp;c. Yet knovv that God vvill not allvvays be &s;o mocked.</P>
<P>Therefore frends take heed all you that drive on &s;o <HI>Iehu</HI>-like, in per&s;ecuting the People and Children of God: for it vvas once vvritten from the Spirit of the holy God, that the Rod of the vvicked should not all vvayes re&s;t upon the back of the righteous, (mark that.)</P>
<P>For vvho&s;oever they be that have yet (in this latter age) gone about to Lord it over Gods heritage, and thereupon, have per&s;ecuted and &s;mitten the Babes, Lambs, and little ones, Children of Light, and they that have thereby had thoughts to vveary out the Saints and chil|dren of the mo&s;t High God, they have hither to been broken, and have broken one another to pieces, and many of them that &s;o did, are all|ready ground to povvder.</P>
<P>O vvicked Generation of vipers, that have in all ages thus ri&s;en up again&s;t God, and his povver, life, light, and truth, made manife&s;t in Gods people, have you not been often vvarned to fly from the vvrath to come, (by the Prophets,) and have you not been de&s;ired to deci&s;t from your bloody and cruel, intentions, and from the evill of your vvays, in killing and Crucifiing the Lord of life, light, and glory, a fresh, and of puting him to open shame, againe, and
<PB REF="10">againe in his People, and have you not been warned to fly from &s;uch abominations as the&s;e; and to &s;eek reconciliation with God, and Man, yee with God and good men, while you have a day and time, and not to de&s;troy &s;uch as feare the Lord; but it &s;eems you will not &s;tay your hearts in God, nor re&s;train your hands from blood; cruelty, perfecution and &s;o forth: But you will fight again&s;t the wit|ne&s;s of God, in your &s;elves, and others, and &s;o forget the &s;ure mercies of <HI>David;</HI> untill the judgments of the Lord God almighty overtake you, againe.</P>
<P>Friends, have not you the Back&s;liders in heart, every where, been the greate&s;t per&s;ecutors, you that of old promi&s;ed better things then the&s;e, and have not you the Back&s;liders in heart been filled with your own ways; and have you not often times been confu&s;ed &amp; (as it were) confounded, with the wicked devices of your own hearts, in almo&s;t every thing, and have you in the&s;e la&s;t 20 years Revolutions learned no more, no better things then the&s;e, have your per&s;ecutions and &s;uffrings taught yo~u no more good yet, what think you, vvill be|come of you, vvhile you are thus found fighters again&s;t God; and the mercies that you have had; vvhat vvil become of you that think to eat up Gods children like Bread, and to &s;catter, &amp; drive, his flock upon the Mountains by your vvolfuish actions tovvards them, as if they vvere not creatures of Gods ovvn making, or your fellow creatures.</P>
<P>Give over your per&s;ecution in time I pray you, lea&s;t (at la&s;t) you dig a pit, and be buried therein your &s;elves; And novv O Lord pa&s;&s;e by the innocent blood that hath been allready &s;pilt in poor <HI>Ireland, England,</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> O hovv did the bloody <HI>Pa|pi&s;ts</HI> at the fir&s;t Rip up the poore <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Women great vvith child, in many places in poore <HI>Ireland,</HI> and all from the in&s;tigation of &s;athan and the Blood-&s;ucking <HI>Prie&s;ts;</HI> vvho pretended for a moderate <HI>Epi&s;copal Clergy</HI> there, &s;uch vvere they that had a hand in that Bloody Ma&s;&s;acre, at the beginning of the late Warre in that place, and in <HI>Englands</HI> for|mer, and latter Martyrdoms.</P>
<P>Be novv therefore convinced of your &s;ins in time, and learn to knovv that God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> have the hearts of Kings as vvell as Rulers and People, in his ovvn hands. Therefore O Lord of Ho&s;ts
<PB REF="10" MS="y">turne the hearts of Kings as well Rulers and People if it be thy vvill, that &s;o they may in time, come and &s;toop unto they Sep|ter, for all the powers on Earth mu&s;t come and bring their glory and honour unto God, or el&s;e they vvill Perish. For ever and ever.</P>
<P>For novv the hand of the Lord God Almighty is &s;tretched forth o|ver all, and none can hinder God, from makeing good his ovvne de|cree, revealed &amp; &s;ealed unto mee, (vvhich in the General is) that he will breake all the Kingdoms, and People of the Earth in pieces, that vvill not have Chri&s;t to Rule in and over them; the mouth of the Lord off Ho&s;ts hath &s;poken it unto me.</P>
<P>O Remember, remember, therefore all ye Sons and Daughters of men, yee that drink Wine in Boules; and go on in your forgetfull|ne&s;s of God and his mercies, you that &s;port your &s;elves in your ovvn lu&s;ts, yee in the lu&s;t of your mindes, the lu&s;t of the Eye, and the pride of life, vvhich is the flesh, the World and the divell, I &s;ay remember that <HI>Tophat</HI> vvas prepared of old for &s;uch, yee for the Rebellious and di&s;obedient, though they were never &s;o mighty and great; and novv learn to knovv that God the Lord of Ho&s;ts, is no re&s;pector of Per&s;ons, and for <HI>Bishops,</HI> that are not as the <HI>Bishops,</HI> &s;poken off in the Scriptures of truth (vvere) They are a loathing and an abomination unto God, for &s;uch God hath allready &s;pevved out of his mouth, and &s;o vvill he do again.</P>
<P>And for all you that are novv in pro&s;peritie, take heed, lea&s;t that glory you novv have, be &s;tayned againe, by your &s;laying more of Gods poor Babes, and Lambs, and Sheepe, of our Fathers pa&s;ture.</P>
<P>O that ever fulne&s;s of bread, and plenty, should cau&s;e great men &s;o to forget God; and that ever Gods goodne&s;s and mercie, should &s;o puffe up men; as it hath novv in this generation done, many vvho not long agoe, had &s;carce Bread to eat, or Garments to put on.</P>
<P>Verily friends, vvho&s;oever you be, that vvill not turn to the light, and living God, but vvill goe on in your fins, '&amp; abyde in your filthi|ne&s;s, both of Flesh and Spirit, God vvill judge you, and at la&s;t de|&s;troy you.</P>
<P>Youridols, Temples, cannot, nor shall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> you: the decree of God is gon forth and &s;ealed again&s;t &s;uch as vvorship idols, and vvill not turn unto him.</P>
<PB REF="11">
<P>And for you that vvill, and doe but truly turne from the evill of your vvays, and come unto God, God vvill love and imbrace you, in his everla&s;ting armes of kindnes, and cover you as vvith a garment, and then you shall by little and little, &s;ee the glory of God in the Land of the living, and perhaps you shall, as others have done be|fore you, &s;ee Gods wonders in the deep, for &s;o did King <HI>David,</HI> vvho after his great abominations, and turning unto God again, and &s;o have &s;ome others done after there returne unto God their maker, in&s;omuch that their whole lives have been lives of hearty &s;orrow, and of everla&s;t|ing prai&s;es. And &s;uch can never &s;ufficiently nor enough admire God; and as <HI>David</HI> &s;aith in the 107. <HI>P&s;alme.</HI> &s;o &s;ay I.</P>
<P><HI>O That the Children of men would but admire God for his vvonderfull works, done unto (and among&s;t) the Children of men.</HI> And in the conclu|&s;ion of that <HI>P&s;alm,</HI> the writer thereof &s;aith. <HI>Who &s;o is vvi&s;e, let them ob|&s;erve the&s;e things, and they shall &s;ee the loving kindne&s;s of the Lord,</HI> And &s;o &s;ay I; though they be Kings. And when God shall rai&s;e up &s;uch a King to beare rule among&s;t any people; let it be where it will, the Lord God of heaven and earth will ble&s;s and pro&s;per &s;uch a one, while he shall faithfully continue and abide in God, and then all his works and undertakeings (for God on Earth) shall pro&s;per, and &s;uch a King shall be ble&s;&s;ed for ever and ever.</P>
<P>And then none can nor shall make &s;uch a one affraid, for if he doth well, who then shall harm him, but if he doth evill, (while he &s;o doth) &s;in will continue, and lie at his doore; yee at Kings doors, as well as at others.</P>
<P>For &s;uch as wee &s;ovve, &s;uch u&s;ually do we reap, yee &s;ome times double and what mea&s;ure men meet, it is u&s;ualy mea&s;ured unto them again.</P>
<P>Therefore, leave off all your Idoll-Gods for shame, all ye Kings and pretended Chri&s;tians, leave of &s;ay I, all you High prie&s;ts your &s;uper|&s;titions, Cerimonies, Surpli&s;ces, Pipes, &s;inging-boyes, and &s;ur&s;in|gles, for they are all a loathing, and an abomination unto God, plaine down right Popery again&s;t which the vvitne&s;s of God is gone forth.</P>
<P>And now take heed, I pray and be&s;eech all you Kings, Prie&s;ts and People of the Earth (for the Lord &s;ake,) of praying, or finging out of the Spirit of God; for that is but a deceiving of your &s;elves, and others;
<PB REF="11" MS="y">that is a mocking of God, and whither you &s;ee it, or believe it, or no, it is &s;o, and where you will hear or forbear, it is all a ca&s;e; for Gods word and witne&s;s is, true and it will (in his owne time) prove &s;o; and you the powers of the Farth shall a&s;&s;uredly know, and feel it, &s;o to be.</P>
<P>And for you that &s;coffe at the light, you Ignorantly, or knowingly, &s;coffe at that vvhich; you live &amp; move by, for by the light all men have their moving living and being, even while they dvvell in darkne&s;s, and in the shadovv of death, &amp; do doe the deceivers vvork, upon the Earth, for light hath shined in darknes but the darknes comprehendeth it not.</P>
<P>Take heed therefore and bevvare of Gods heavie judgments, all you that laugh and &s;coffe, at Gods people (that vvalk in God, &amp; are turned to the light,) and at their praying in the Spirit, or by the &s;pirit, for &s;uch their have been, and novv are, that have been, and are, vvhole days in the Spirit, yee and nights too, vvhom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, hath heard and an&s;vvered. And though you the povvers of the Earth, should combine altogether, and make never &s;o many decrees again&s;t &s;uch a praying People as <HI>Daniel</HI> the <HI>Prophet.</HI> &amp;c. vvas, yet they vvill (vvhile they have life) pray; as <HI>Daniel</HI> did, and &s;ome &s;uch, do certainly knovv, that God vvill at la&s;t break all your cords in &s;under, and in the mean time pre&s;erve them.</P>
<P>And novv vvhile you the povvers of the Earth doe make &s;uch lavvs and decrees again&s;t Gods, praying Spirit, in man: the mouth of the Lord of Ho&s;ts vvill be again&s;t you, I &s;ay in God, that God hath determined that his People mu&s;t, and shall pray unto him in the Spirit, yee and vvorship him in the Spirit, and honour him, and all men in the Spirit; for God him&s;elfe is head over all, yee over all principallities, and povvers, and Spirituall vvickedne&s;s in high places, and thus God hath, and vvill rebuke Kings for his ovvn and Peoples &s;ake: the mouth of the Lord of Ho&s;ts, hath &s;poken it.</P>
<P>And novv the God and Father of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and in him our Father, hath required commanded, and in abled us, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> to pray again&s;t Spiritual vvickedne&s;s in high places, and for all them that are in Authority over us, that &s;o (under them) vve may live a godly and peaceable life, vvhich vvee the People of God doe, and shall doe.</P>
<P>Farther, I am &s;ure that God hath novv made &s;ome of his People vvatchmen in I&s;rael, vvhom he hath commanded, and requi|red
<PB REF="12" MS="y">to give him no re&s;t, untill he hath made <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> the prai&s;e of the vvhole Earth: And this the Lord our righteou&s;ne&s;s, who is life, light, povver, and glory: hath ray&s;ed up <HI>Prophets,</HI> and children, unto him&s;elfe to pray unto him in the &s;pirit, more or le&s;&s;e day &amp; night, for the accom|plishment of the&s;e things, and for the fullfilling of his vvord, and decrecrevealed, &s;poken and promi&s;ed unto us, that &s;o Kings might be|come Nur&s;&s;ing Fathers, and Queens Nur&s;&s;ing Mothers, unto the Saints and People of God, for &s;ure I am, that &s;uch Kings and Rulers (vvhile on Earth) would be for the prai&s;e of them that do vvell, and for the punishment, of &s;uch as do evill, I &s;ay, &s;uch as doe inqiuity, and &s;pend Gods good creatures in drunkene&s;s, and in all manner of exce&s;s of riot, God vvill punish, though they be ne|ver &s;o great, for u&s;ualy &s;uch doe &s;tuddie on their Beds of dovvn, &amp; in o|ther places, hovv they may feed the delight of their eyes the lu&s;t of their minds &amp; pride of there lifs, even to the maintaining of the pride of life, in al manner of vvhordoms, both Spirituall, and carnall: the vvhich (I am &s;ure,) God is highly di&s;plea&s;ed at, and greatlie again&s;t, and for &s;uch doings together, vvith the blood of the Saints.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> our God hath yet a greater controver&s;ie vvith the &s;ons, and daughters of men, then ever, the dreadfullne&s;s and terriblene&s;s there|of, vvhen (in God) I have beheld it, hath often times made me to tremble, ye and to fall dovvn before his holy pre&s;ence, and to vvor|ship his holy name, and to implore, and humbly to beg and be|&s;eech him, that he vvould pa&s;s &s;uch great iniquites by, if it vvere his vvill. But I finde no an&s;vver as yet from God, that he vvill &s;o do, but I &s;ee the hand and judgments of the great God, &s;till &s;tretched out, and ha&s;ting over all the Inhabitants of the Earth.</P>
<P>And as for thee, <HI>O England,</HI> vvith thy great Cities and Tovvns likned have they been unto mee, to great and little <HI>Babylon.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;ay unto you that have &s;lain, mi&s;u&s;ed, and often abu&s;ed, and evilly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> many of Gods dear People, his &s;ervants, and <HI>Prophets,</HI> yea his true <HI>Prophets,</HI> and children of the light, I &s;ay unto you, you have often times throvvn many of them into Pri&s;ons, Holes, and Dungeons vvhere vvicked per&s;ons have been, vvho have mi&s;u&s;ed the inocent, even unto Death, and many have been killed by rea&s;on of &s;uch ill u&s;age.</P>
<PB REF="12">
<P>And have not you, or &s;ome of you the High-Prie&s;ts, Kings, and Ru|lers of the Earth, been the cau&s;e of all your ovvn, &amp; the people mi&s;&s;e|ries in the sheding of innocent blood, I doe not mean that which you have sheed in the vvay you call ju&s;tice, and though you have al|ready de&s;troyed many in that vvay, and thereby you have thought to have wearyed out the Saints of the mo&s;t high, the vvhich you can never do, for God my God, hath other wayes decreed, and deter|mined it.</P>
<P>And though you in <HI>England</HI> in your great Cities, (to wit) in <HI>Lon|don, Exetor, Sarum</HI> Alies <HI>Sali&s;bury, Bri&s;tol, Worce&s;ter, Norwich, Roche&s;ter, Canterbury, Linckolne, York,</HI> &amp;c. And you in the re&s;t of your great and little Towns, I &s;ay, though you and the greate&s;t part of your inhabitants, daylie doe de&s;pite unto the Spirit of God in man, and thus grieve the Holy one of I&s;rael, and thereby plainlie manife&s;t who&s;e &s;ervants you are, for who&s;e &s;ervants you are, him doe you obey, and &s;o you forget, that the wages of &s;in is Death; I &s;ay though you forget God, yet God vvill not forget you, for he vvill revvard every man according to his vvorks.</P>
<P>O what then can you that are found in &s;o great iniquitie Expect (in this the day of Gods vi&s;itation) I &s;ay what can you think of: or expect for a requital other then the heavie &amp; dreadfull judgements of God, upon you verely I knovv not.</P>
<P>And as for you in <HI>England</HI> with the greate&s;t part of your Inha|bitants: you are poore and mi&s;erable, yea and great finners again&s;t light, for vvhich the Lord <HI>Iehovah,</HI> hath yet a greater controver&s;ie with you, then ever.</P>
<P>Therefore con&s;ider and take this good coun&s;ell vvhich follows, vvithout goiing unto, your <HI>A&s;trologers, South&s;ayers, Socerers,</HI> or <HI>Magitions</HI> (<HI>Wi&s;emen</HI> &s;o accounted.) I &s;ay in &s;tead of going unto them, goe unto God, who is light, which maketh all things, manife&s;t, and then if you do but &s;tand &s;till a vvhile in Gods light; you shall &s;ee light, al&s;o you shall knovv, &s;ee and feel, that this good coun&s;ell cometh from <HI>Iehovah,</HI> through a poore &s;ervant of Gods, for all your good, if evill bee not all together predominate
<PB REF="13">in you, and deceit wholy become yo~ur Lord and Ma&s;ter, then that will make you run farther and farther from God, untill you peri&s;h (mark that) as well as what followeth.</P>
<P>There vvill that come upon you in England of a &s;udden, you that cea&s;e not &s;pedily from &s;in; and turn not unto the living God; I &s;ay there vvill that come among&s;t, and upon you (of a &s;udden) that will amaze terrifie and confound many of the great and mighty toge|ther with many others of the Inhabitants, a little time more (in com|pari&s;on) vvill manife&s;t it.</P>
<P>Murmur not therfore yee &s;ons and daughters of men, but comfort yee one another in the Lord that can: for you in <HI>England,</HI> knovv not as yet hovv to avoid your falling into great coufu&s;ion, per&s;ecution, Blood, and mi&s;&s;ery; <HI>O England</HI> thou vvith thine Inhabitants, vvilt fall together by the eares, and then yee vvill rend, tear, and de|voure one another, like &s;o many bea&s;ts of prey: yee, like &s;o many vvild Bores of the <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> vvill you &s;tricke at one another.</P>
<P>And the harmle&s;s and innocent ones among&s;t you, you vvill cut from off the Earth, if the Lord permit, at lea&s;t as many of them as you judge, or think do &s;tand in your vvay, &s;uch vvill you banni&s;h, hale to pri&s;on or othervvi&s;e per&s;ecute, you thinking thereby, to vveary them out that God hath already rai&s;ed up to be Saints of the mo&s;t high, vvho doe novv vvitne&s;s again&s;t &s;uch abominations as cometh from him that de|lighteth to make de&s;olate the People of God.</P>
<P>And as for thee, O King of <HI>England</HI> thou vvilt be hardly put to it, to e&s;cape, for in the light of the Lord, I have &s;een them nigh thee &s;everall times, that vvill be the cau&s;e of thy ruine, if not thy utter de|&s;truction, and the time vvill come, that thou vvilt not knovv vvhat to doe, nor vvhither to goe, al&s;o thou shalt in vvords repent, and &s;ay that it had been better for thee that thou had&s;t never been born, (thy mi&s;&s;eries vvill be &s;uch) then for thee to have done, and &s;uffered that to be done, vvhich is already pa&s;t.</P>
<P>And that vvhich thou vvilt yet farther &s;uffer, and maye&s;t be acce&s;&s;ary to the doing off, vvill help forvvard thy mi&s;&s;ery and Calam|nity, for many there are, that vvill be by thy con&s;ent and permi&s;&s;ion, taken avvay from the evill to come, by untimely Death, and all this vvil be for the fullfilling of Gods decree, revealed, and made manife&s;t, unto mee,</P>
<PB REF="13">
<P>But thy end in it O Man, is not good, the which is well known to the Almighty, and unto &s;ome of his beloved ones, who have been com|manded, and required from God, to &s;ignifie the &s;ub&s;tance of the&s;e things unto thee, and unto the inhabitants of the whole Earth,</P>
<P>Friends, the&s;e things, have been wonderfully revealed and made manife&s;t unto mee; from the Lord God Almighty, in &s;o much, that I have (often times) been made to tremble before the living God, in the &s;eeing and beholding thereof.</P>
<P>And Verely true it is, the Lord God Almighty is ju&s;t in bringing thee, O King of <HI>England,</HI> with others in, over your enemies; it being accord|ing to his revealed word in and unto me; long before it came to pa&s;s.</P>
<P>And as true it is, that God the Lord of Hoa&s;ts, is a rewarder of every man according to his, or there workes and deeds, done in the flesh, wheither they be good or evell.</P>
<P>And wheither can&s;t thou O Man, O King, flye from the pre&s;ence of the Lord God Almightie, Lord of Lords, and King of Kings;</P>
<P>Verelie I knovv not vvheither thou can&s;t flye from the pre&s;ence of the great God, for fly whether&s;oever thou wilt; God will follovv thee vvith his judgments, untill the mea&s;ure of thine iniquities are full; This have I &s;een, and the mouth of the Lord hath &s;poken it unto me.</P>
<P>Forther I have (in the light of God,) &s;een terrible and dreadfull things that shall come upon the Earth, &s;ome of vvhich are not as yet lavvfull for me to utter, but vvhat is lavvfull and layd upon me to &s;ignifie unto thee and unto the children of men, I have and shall freely doe it (marke therefore vvhat followeth.) I have often times &s;een acertain number of men, nigh thee, O King of <HI>England,</HI> I &s;ay, I have certainly &s;een a num|ber of men (nigh thee O King) &s;everall times in con&s;ultation, coun|&s;elling thee, to doe, the things that are not good; neither in the &s;ight of God, or man (viz) con&s;ulting together, hovv they, (with thee) might rid thy Territories and Dominions (&s;o called,) of an innocent harmeles quiet peacable people, that hurt you not, nor vvill they harm any body; Though the bloody minded of all &s;orrs, doe goe about to make thee (O King) and others, believe, other ways of us.</P>
<P>But my God, vvill Ere long, revvard all &s;uch, with the evell of there ovvne doings;</P>
<PB REF="14">
<P>For there vvill yet be greater tribulations upon the Earth, then ever.</P>
<P>Al&s;o I have (in the light of the Lord) &s;een great Lightnings and Thunders that shall be; the tirriblene&s;s thereof, shall make both men and bea&s;ts affraid, in&s;omuch that they shall not know what to do, nor whither to goe to hide them&s;elves from the pre&s;ence of the Almighty.</P>
<P>I have al&s;o &s;een other dreadful and tirrible &s;ights, vvhich shall be &s;een upon the Earth; &s;uch things when they come, as will amaze terrifie and confound many of them that believe not in the living God.</P>
<P>For Signes and Wonders there mu&s;t be (for a while) that &s;o the un|believers may believe, and know, that Gods Word is true, which he hath &s;poken in the&s;e la&s;t dayes, by his Servants and Prophets;</P>
<P><HI>Now in this Book is part of</HI> Englands <HI>dome, (to come) Demon&s;trated.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore do I once more according to the Requirings of God made manife&s;t, in and unto me; be&s;eech you the Povvers and Peo|ple of that place, not to harden your hearts any longer; lea&s;t more of you become as <HI>Pharoahs.</HI></P>
<P>And do not you blind guids of the Earth, Hirelings of any &s;ort, go about any longer, to make your Ma&s;ters and People believe that there are no true Prophets novv upon the Earth, for in your vvillfullne&s;s, darkne&s;s blindne&s;s and ignorance of God, and of his mi&s;teries, (Chri&s;t being unto you a mi&s;terie) I &s;ay in your ignorance and blind Zeal, you have hitherto gon about, to make both the Povvers and People of the Earth, believe a lye, and you have in&s;enced both the People &amp; Povv|ers of the Earth, again&s;t the Children of Light, Servants and Prophets of God, vvhom God hath, rai&s;ed up; to bear te&s;tamony unto his name and truth, as it vvas in the begining, and it vvould have been better for you, if you had not &s;o don&eacute;, &s;ure I am if the Te&s;tamony of Je&s;us, be the &s;pirit of Prophecy, as I both knovv &amp; believe it is: Then God hath many true Prophets novv upon the Earth, who have and do in Gods Name, Authority Power and Strength, Prophecy; yea, and they have foretould you, the People, Prie&s;ts, and Powers of <HI>England</HI> &amp;c. what would come upon you, part whereof is already come to pa&s;s, and the remainder is comming, and &s;uch dare not Preach Lies in the Name of God and Chri&s;t, as the fal&s;e Chri&s;tians, blind Guides, and Hirelings of the Earth do, vvho Preach for Hire, and Divine for Money, and &s;o Ride both Povvers, and People, even to Death.</P>
<P>And now, had not the Lord God Almighty, given &s;uch his &s;ervants <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> of things to come, they dur&s;t
<PB REF="14">not have &s;o &s;poken, and vvrote, as they have: Novv vvould the former King, Povvers, Prie&s;ts, and People of <HI>England,</HI> but have believed, that vvhich vvas &s;aid unto them from God, by his &s;ervants, vvho vvere Ina|bled both to &s;peak and write unto them: &s;ure there had been no more Innocent blood &s;pilt, after the fir&s;t War in <HI>England</HI> was ended, but they vvould not believe, nor take council of God, by his Children, but in &s;tead thereof, they <HI>(to wit)</HI> the greate&s;t and vvi&s;e&s;t of them, vvould do as many Great Mighty, Wi&s;e, and Noble, novv do, laugh, jere, &amp; &s;coffe at them, vvhich God had inabled, &amp; comanded to &s;peak to them, vvho (from God) did po&s;itively fore-tell them, of their ruine &amp; de&s;tructi|on, as they do of yours novv, if you repent not, and turn not unto God.</P>
<P>For there vvill yet be greater trouble upon the Earth then ever vvas.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there vvill be Earth-quakes in &s;ome places of the World, that vvill &s;vvallovv up many, if not vvhole Countries. Farther there vvill be a Nation born in a day.</P>
<P>The&s;e things hath the Almighty God given me, a perfect and clear fight off, as if they were already pa&s;t: vvith many more, vvhich as yet I have no Authority nor command from on High, to publish, but this my God and Father, hath already a&s;&s;ured me, that what&s;oever (of it) shall make for his Glory, and for his Peoples good, he will (in his ovvn time) give me povver, and &s;trength, to declare it, and for that vvhich doth particularly concern &s;ome men, I shall in Gods time, faithfully &s;ignifie it unto them.</P>
<P>Novv ble&s;&s;ed are the Mercifull, for they shall find Mercy, in the day (which is nigh at hand) when God will poure forth the Vials of his wrath, judgment, and Indignation, upon the di&s;obedient, for Gods determination, is &s;o to do, al&s;o God is &s;taining the Glory of all flesh, that &s;o none may glory any more in the flesh, but in the Lord aloan, who is Head over all.</P>
<P>Now judgment is not only begun at the Hou&s;e of Go~d, but it is gon and going forth again&s;t Sathan, and his In&s;truments, every where, and all &s;uch as are found in Rebellion, and Di&s;obedience again&s;t God, shall have no true comfort, rebellion again&s;t God, being as the &s;in of witchcraft, &s;ay for all &s;uch as shall be found in this iniquity of rebelli|on again&s;t God, and in truth and peace-breaking, and in blood-guilti|ne&s;s, per&s;ecution, &s;in &s;uper&s;tion &amp; Idolitry, shall have but little quiet, for God hath determined vvonderfull things to be.</P>
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<P>And the&s;e things herein (called <HI>Englands</HI> dome) hath been from God often times &s;ignified unto me, to be that, which vvill &s;urely come up|on <HI>Englands</HI> Inhabitants, &s;o &s;ure vvill they come, as that which is all|ready pa&s;t: for none shall hinder, the decree of God.</P>
<P>Now vvhen the Lord God Almighty fir&s;t began to open the&s;e things unto me, great vvere his mercies, and infinit was his loving kindnes in and unto me, in&s;omuch that if I had the tongue of men and Angels, I were not able to expre&s;s and declare it, I being but as a child, and one as vvith a &s;tamering tongue, hath in the &s;trength of my God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> made manife&s;t vvhat God hath (at pre&s;ent) required at my hands, this being written from the requirings of God, the latter end of the yeare, 1661. I &s;ay, this called <HI>Englands</HI> dome, vvas then vvritten, but the other things vvere vvriten at other times.</P>
<P>Novv the mightie vvonderfull and povverfull appearances of the Lord God of Wi&s;dom, were &s;uch in and unto me, for days and nights that had not God in his mercy and goodnes tovvards me, borne up my Spirits, I had then laid dovvn the body, for vvhen God thus opened &amp; revealed the&s;e things in and unto me, and gave me thus to behold &amp; &s;ee his great and Glorious pre&s;ence, I then had a cleare &s;ight of all the&s;e things herein mentioned, and then, even then, I beheld and &s;avv dreadfull and terible things that the vvicked of the Earth, should in a little time more be found doing of, again&s;t the Godly, further the Blood|sheding, mi&s;ery, Calamity and confu&s;ion, that in the light of God I then &s;avv coming, not only, in &amp; upon poor <HI>England,</HI> but el&s;e where; vvould make the &s;toute&s;t Kings, Princes, Prie&s;ts and People, of the Earth, there harts to tremble and quake, to behold and &s;ee it, as I have done; <HI>And this &s;ound of the Spirit of God, have often pa&s;&s;ed through mee. O what would I do to &s;ave this people.</HI></P>
<P>So that through mercy I can truly &s;ay, &amp; te&s;tifie to the vvhole world, that God is good to I&s;rael, &amp; unto them that obey him &amp; are of a pure and upright heart, al&s;o that this Gods wonderfull dealings vvith me, is not for naught, for in the midde&s;t and deapth of all our tribulations, &s;uffrings, and aflictions, that vvee the People of God, and sheepe of our Fathers pa&s;ture, may yet meet vvith all, I &s;ay from God, that in the hight of all our enemies fury towards us, God the Lord of Hoa&s;t, vvill deliver us his poor innocent, and oppre&s;&s;ed ones that abide and tru&s;t
<PB REF="15">in him, the&s;e things hath my God opened and perfectly shevven unto me, againe and again, yea, and &s;ealed them unto, and in me, to the end, that I should publish them, unto the &s;ons and daughters of men, that &s;o all the People of God, on earth, may be comforted, yee and be made to abyde &s;tedfa&s;t and unmoveable, allvvays abounding in the vvorke, and &s;ervice of God in the midde&s;t of our greate&s;t &s;uffrings.</P>
<P>And novv vvhile the vvicked doe vvalke on every &s;ide, and the vilde&s;t of men are exalted, let us the People of God, be ever more found doing our Fathers vvill one Earth, as it is in Heaven, and as much good to our enemies, as vvee can, for in our &s;o doing, our God and Father vvill be vvell plea&s;ed vvith us, and he vvill delight him&s;elfe in us, to the perfecting of his prai&s;e for us and by us.</P>
<P>And for all you Kings, Princes, Rulers, Prei&s;ts, People, and Povvers of the Earth &amp; of the Earthly mind, Flatter not your &s;elves any longer, and &s;uffer not your &s;elves to be deceived and flatred withall, &amp; fauned upon, by your high Prie&s;t &amp; blind guids, for &s;uch doe but &s;evv pillows of downe under you, vvhich vvill deceive both you and them at la&s;t, I &s;ay deceive not your &s;elves, nor them that you have povver &amp; authority over. But turne you unto the light of God, vvhile you have a day and time, and ceace from &s;in, you little and lofty ones of the Earth, and do good, and be yee all found in Moderation, and in the vvorks of holi|nes rightou&s;nes peace and truth, for the Lords &s;ake, other vvayes it vvill goe very hard with you all, I doe a&s;&s;ure you.</P>
<P>And novv vvho&s;oever you be, that shall be found in the path of righteou&s;nes peace and truth, and in vvell doing, al&s;o in modera|tion, it may then be trulie hoped, that &s;uch people doe knovv that the Lord God Almighty is nigh at hand to judgment for &s;in.</P>
<P>And for all you Kings, Rulers and people, that shallbe found in the exerci&s;e of the things that are good, you shall have true comfort, there|in, and the tryal of your faith and patience in your &s;o doing, vvill be of much more comfort unto you, then all your Earthly crovvns, yea then al your gold &amp; honour that perisheth, now that true honour which com|eth from above is fir&s;t pure &amp; then peacable, it is al&s;o gentle and ea&s;y to be intreated, it is al&s;o full of love, &amp; good vvorks, and vvhat not, that is of good and of hone&s;t report, and &s;ure I am, that all they that live in this moderation, be they Kings, or others, they mu&s;t needs knovv good from
<PB REF="16" MS="y">evill, and avoid the one, and love the other; And novv friends did you but knovv vvho it vvas that came from <HI>Bozero</HI> vvith his Gar|ments rouled in blood; &s;ure you would tremble, for he it is that is come, and comming to judge the Earth: yea to judge both the quick and dead; or did you but con&s;ider, as vvell as knovv, that &s;ome men for sheding of innocent blood, have already payed deare; you vvould then &s;eace from blood, and never do iniquity more.</P>
<P>Novv doe you not knovv that blood is a crying &s;in, and that the cry thereof, hath often reached unto Heaven; And hovv God remem|breth it, and that he vvill be avenged thereof.</P>
<P>Have you forgotten that God judgeth among&s;t the Gods, and do you not knovv, for vvhat God hath ca&s;t dovvn &s;ome, and rai&s;ed up o|thers, and hovv he giveth the Kingdomes of men unto vvhom&s;o|ever he plea&s;eth: and that he is no re&s;pector of per&s;ons; and vvill you yet go on in your &s;ins; &s;ure you that Rule over men, ought to be kinde, loving, mercifull, and ju&s;t; I &s;ay unto you, vvho&s;oever you be, that thus hunger and thir&s;t after innocent blood, God vvill give you blood to drink again, &amp; at la&s;t bring you into confu&s;ion, vvoe, mi&s;&s;ery, torment, and trouble: for there is innocency in many, vvho thir&s;t not after blood, and vvrath in the Lamb of God (that taketh away the &s;ins of the vvorld) on their behalfe; and God, my God, vvill in a lit|tle time more manife&s;t it, and make it apeare unto all thevvorld.</P>
<P>And then you that have &s;een this Te&s;timony, vvill &s;ay, that this vvas a plaine and faithfull vvarning, as vvell as a loving invitation, fore&s;ight and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> for the healing of the Nations, and People of the Earth, e&s;pecially them of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And now I tell you in <HI>England</HI> &amp;c. make vvhat confedracies you vvill vvith in your &s;elves, &amp; vvith Death, and Hell, that tends to blood, the Lord God (omnipotent, God over all) vvill reveale, and di&s;cover it &amp; God in his own time, vvill bla&s;t you, &amp; it, that shall be found therein Al&s;o make vvhat conjunctions &amp; confedracies you vvill, vvithin your &s;elves, and vvith other Nations (vvho are infatuated, as vvell as you, it shall all be for the fullfilling, and accomplishing of the&s;e things herein &s;poken off, and treated on.</P>
<P>Friends novv learn to knovv that God is he, vvhich maketh all things manife&s;t.</P>
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<P>Therefore wait patiently (in God) all ye children of light, and be &s;till, and think not much any of you, at your &s;ufferings, for God behold|eth it, and taketh care of all you that tru&s;t in him, For through &s;uffrings mu&s;t redemption come.</P>
<P>Al&s;o knovv if any shall &s;ay, he or they hath a Revelation or Pro|phe&s;ie, and commeth in the name of the Lord, and &s;peaketh fal&s;ly, the Lord God will reward &s;uch, with the evil of their own doings, there|fore let no man de&s;troy &s;uch; al&s;o if any man shall draw back, from the &s;ervice, of the living God; my &s;oul &s;aith God (through me) shall have no plea&s;ure in &s;uch, let no man therefore now neglect to do the &s;er|vice, and requirings, of God.</P>
<P>Friends, I &s;ay again, wait patiently (in God) and &s;ee what a fevv yeares more will bring forth, and be not impatient, but watch, and pray, (that can) and as it is &s;aid before, &s;o doe.</P>
<P>And now take no care when you, or any of you, shall be had be|fore Kings, and Princes, for his name &s;ake, or before other Rulers, for the Lord careth for you; and remember, that it be the patient, and the meek, that do, and shall iuherit the Kingdome, that cannot be removed, in which Kingdome is the Crownimmortall, which fadeth not away, its Gods Kingdome.</P>
<P>And for thou O King of England let this folowing Coun&s;ell be acceptable vnto thee (among&s;t the re&s;t) Break thou of thy &s;ins by Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and thine Iniquities, by showing mercy unto the poore, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillitie.</P>
<P>But if thou shalt yet goe on in the fullfilling of thy lu&s;t and in &s;uffer|ing the truly Inocent peaceable people of God, to be worrowed, bru&s;ed, abu&s;ed, and beaten, a while Longer, as they have bin.</P>
<P>As heavey a hand from the Lord God Allmighty will fall upon thee and them that cau&s;e &s;uch Greiuious and abominable things to be don, (as hither to hath bin don and Inflicted upon Gods pore babes Lambs, and little ons) As ever fell upon King Nebuchadnezzar: Belshazzer or Darious: For Great Babelon, is &s;till in Remembrance before the Great God of heaven and Earth, who&s;e reward is nye, for all There Creueltyes don unto the &s;aints and people of God.</P>
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