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<P>AN ALARM TO ALL FLESH: WITH AN INVITATION To the true SEEKER, FORTHWITH To flye for his Life (Clearly) out of the &s;hort-lived <HI>Babylon,</HI> into <HI>the Life;</HI> out of words, into <HI>the Word;</HI> out of the many and changeable Likene&s;&s;es, into <HI>Him,</HI> the &s;ame ye&s;terday, to day, for ever and ever.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO,</HI> A Word of Encouragement to the Faithful, to be Faithful &s;till.</P>
<P>By <HI>E. B.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Robert Wil&s;on,</HI> at the &s;ign of the <HI>Black &s;pread-Eagle</HI> and <HI>Wind-Mill</HI> in <HI>Martins l' Grand,</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>A WORD TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>LEt all Fle&s;h be &s;ilent, fear and forbear to &s;peak evil of Dig|nities, the Power &amp; the thing they know not: I &s;ay unto all, Harden not your hearts against the Lord and his annointed; but while&s;t it is to day, turn in, repent, and hear his Voice; for its hard for ye to kick again&s;t the pricks; and it's impo&s;sible for ye to impede the holy One in his Decree; and he that will not bow before him, &s;hall be &s;hattered like a Potters Ve&s;&s;el, and the Scoffers Bonds &s;hall be made &s;trong; and the
<PB REF="4"> Mower &s;aith, <HI>All Fle&s;h is Gra&s;s;</HI> and the Sinner of an hundred yeares old &s;hall dye accur&s;ed, and the very memo|ry of the Wicked &s;hall rot: But the Name of the Ju&s;t &s;hall live for ever.</P>
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<HEAD>An <HI>Alarm</HI> to all Fle&s;h; with an Invi|tation to the true <HI>Seeker,</HI> forthwith to flye for his Life (clearly) out of the &s;hort-liv'd Babylon, into the Life, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>HOwle, howle, &s;hrick, yell</HI> and <HI>roar,</HI> ye Lu&s;tful, Cur&s;ing, Swearing, Drunken, Lewd, Super&s;titi|ous, Devilli&s;h, Sen&s;ual, <HI>Earthly Inhabitants</HI> of the whole Earth; <HI>Bow, bow</HI> ye mo&s;t &s;urley Trees, and lofty Oaks, ye tall Cedars, and low Shrubs, <HI>Cry out a|loud; <HI>hear, hear</HI></HI> ye proud Waves, and boi&s;trous Seas, al&s;o <HI>li|&s;ten</HI> ye uncircumci&s;ed, &s;tiff-necked, and mad-raging <HI>Bubbles,</HI> who even hate to be reformed.</P>
<P>In the Name of the Lord God of Gods, and King of Kings, <HI>Hear, hear; Repent, Repent,</HI> forthwith <HI>Repent;</HI> for be as &s;ure as the Lord liveth, ye &s;hall <HI>feel</HI> (though ye will not <HI>&s;ee</HI> nor <HI>hear</HI>) the Irre&s;i&s;table and Mighty Hand of the Almighty Lord God of Heaven and Earth; yea <HI>he can, he will <HI>overtake ye</HI></HI> &s;uddenly; and in a moment ye are not <HI>aware of,</HI> will he for ever <HI>raze down</HI> your whole Fabrick of Prophanene&s;s and Su|per&s;titon (to wit) the Builders and the Built; for witne&s;&s;e O <HI>Heaven,</HI> and know oh <HI>Earth, Earth,</HI> that the Lord God hath not <HI>pull'd down <HI>Hypocri&s;ie</HI> to e&s;tabli&s;h <HI>Idolatry:</HI></HI> And this is the Word of the Lord God to all ye who live in plea&s;ure, wantonne&s;s and fulne&s;s of Bread, being dead while&s;t ye &s;eem|ingly live, <HI>Prepare to meet the pure God of the Righteous, Inno|cent, and</HI> (by ye) <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ed Seed;</HI> For behold, his Invincible, Glittering, Invi&s;ible Sword is on his Thigh; and he who&s;e Eye to the Light is kept in his Head, &s;ees it; and the whole Sen&s;ua|li&s;ts upon the whole Earth, &s;hall feel (if they will not &s;ee)
<PB N="2" REF="5"> that <HI>he can, <HI>he will</HI></HI> in a moment <HI>deliver his whole Seed</HI> from under the Bondage of their cruel and unrea&s;onable Task-Ma&s;ters, and <HI>Crown his own Seed</HI> in the face and Power of the Son; Then &s;hall the <HI>Ba&s;han Oaks, I&s;maels</HI> and <HI>Dive&s;es</HI> of this Generation, <HI>roar</HI> and <HI>reel,</HI> yea <HI>&s;hake</HI> and <HI>quake, <HI>look upward and downward,</HI></HI> and <HI>cur&s;e their Leaders and their God,</HI> which now is their Lu&s;ts, Bellyes, Super&s;titions and Plea&s;ures. <HI>Horror</HI> &s;hall lay hold <HI>on their right,</HI> and <HI>Terror</HI> &s;hall &s;eize upon <HI>their left Hand;</HI> Every man's Hands &s;hall be upon his Loyns, and the Cry &s;hall be, <HI>Who will &s;hew us any Good?</HI> And an unparallel'd Dart of Amazement &s;hall pierce quite through the Liver of the Champion, (in&s;omuch that he &s;hall Implore the De&s;pi&s;ed, to &s;hew him the Way:) And <HI>a Remedile&s;s</HI> and <HI>Importable Confu&s;ion</HI> &s;hall be in the very <HI>In|mo&s;t</HI> middle of them; The <HI>Judge</HI> and <HI>Mighty Pur&s;uer</HI> of e|very man, &s;hall be (then known) <HI>in his own Brea&s;t,</HI> and they &s;hall not have any remedying Help left in the Earth. I &s;ay, (not I, but the Lord) in that Day <HI>the whole Inter|e&s;t</HI> of the Wicked &s;hall be utterly <HI>be-feebled,</HI> and <HI>Rotten|ne&s;s</HI> &s;hall &s;eize upon them all, as one man; and they &s;hall be but <HI>one Intire Lump,</HI> fit to <HI>Receive</HI> (not able to re&s;i&s;t) <HI>the fierce Wrath</HI> of the long-provoked God of the Oppre&s;|&s;ed; for who&s;e &s;ake he will work Wonders, yea he will ac|compli&s;h unutterable things in, and upon the Earth: (<HI>The I am, <HI>a Con&s;uming Fire, hath &s;poken it.) Then &s;hall the whole Brood of Evil-doers,</HI></HI> who&s;e Tongues in this their Day (which al&s;o is the Day of <HI>Jacob's</HI> Troubles) walk too and fro tho|rough the Earth, making a Mock at Sin, turning their Day of Mercy into Super&s;tition, Swearing, Cruelty, Wanton|ne&s;s, Fea&s;ting, Plays, Sports, and La&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>gna&s;h <HI>their teeth, and</HI> gnaw <HI>their Tongues for very pain;</HI></HI> and even as they have made &s;hipwrack <HI>of a good,</HI> or that of the good God in <HI>their Con&s;ciences;</HI> &s;o &s;hall them&s;elves, their <HI>Accomplices or A&s;&s;i&s;tants,</HI> be wreaked, mangled, and &s;poiled,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Yea the Prophane as well as the Hypo|crite, &s;hall flye when no man pur&s;ueth.</NOTE> for the Spoyler hath been, and yet &s;hall be &s;poiled. The <HI>All-trying, All &s;eeing, Pitiful God</HI> of the
<PB N="3" REF="5"> &s;poiled hath &s;aid it, who will compleatly perform <HI>to the lat|ter,</HI> and to <HI>the former,</HI> every one according to his De&s;erts and Degrees of <HI>(done) <HI>Cruelty;</HI></HI> For <HI>know,</HI> O <HI>Wor&s;t,</HI> and <HI>believe,</HI> O <HI>Be&s;t of Men,</HI> God is Ju&s;t, and he never did, nor at this day doth, nor in that (mo&s;t terrible) hour will re|&s;pect the per&s;on of any Mortal: And who&s;oever thinks his Per&s;on <HI>is Reverend, Wor&s;hipful, Sacred, Honorable,</HI> or <HI>Ho|ly,</HI> and can one moment impede the Wrath of God (which I &s;ay will &s;wiftly thunder down, and light upon all that's fle&s;hly) is a fooli&s;h Bla&s;phemer; for <HI>Right Honourable, Wor&s;hipful, Sacred, Holy</HI> and <HI>Reverend is the Name of him who made Heaven and Earth;</HI> and <HI>onely him</HI> who hath revea|led and will perform; To whom be a&s;cribed as is directly due, <HI>all Might, Power, Dominion, Glory</HI> and <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> now and for ever; Even <HI>&s;o be it</HI> acknowledged by all who know and fear his Name, <HI>Amen,</HI> and <HI>Amen.</HI> Which Lord over all, is <HI>exactly jealous</HI> of <HI>his Honour,</HI> and will not <HI>give it</HI> (though too too many rob him) <HI>to another:</HI> But that &s;oul which believes, and in word and deed is &s;ubject to the Higher Power, and Rules in God, is worthy of double Honour: And &s;uch &s;eek not the Honour of man which is from below in the fall, in the Cur&s;e, in the Helli&s;h Darkne&s;s, in the Name and Authority of him who &s;pake of him&s;elf, which was, and is a Lyar from his Beginning: But in the Light I &s;ee Light, the brightne&s;s of who&s;e coming, who will come quickly, and will not tarry long (before whom the whole <HI>Arm of Fle&s;h</HI> mu&s;t <HI>wither, bow, &s;ubmit,</HI> or <HI>breake</HI>) &s;hall <HI>bla&s;t</HI> all this <HI>as untimely fruit,</HI> and &s;hall &s;ay to every individual <HI>Tree, Sucker, Sient, Graft</HI> or <HI>Plant,</HI> or <HI>ignoble Vine,</HI> which his own Right Hand hath not planted (or is become a degenerate Plant) <HI>Be thou accur&s;ed from hence|forward, never more grow &s;o much as leaves upon thee in the lea&s;t, to hide thy &s;hame, or cover thy Deceit.</HI> Then &s;hall <HI>a holy Nation</HI> be born <HI>in a day,</HI> and the memory of the <HI>pro|phane</HI> &s;hall <HI>rot</HI> and <HI>peri&s;h</HI> like their own Dung; and in their rooms &s;hall be fixed (as the Stars of the Firmament) <HI>peace and good will upon Earth, Coun&s;ellors as at the fir&s;t, and Judges
<PB N="4" REF="6"> as at the beginning.</HI> Al&s;o in that day &s;hall <HI>the Truce-breaking Hypocrites,</HI> for their mocking of God, their Earthly-min|dedne&s;s, their cau&s;ing the way of truth (in this day) to be bla&s;phemed, and not doing the Work of the Lord faithful|ly, and for their per&s;ecuting (in their pa&s;t day) the inno|cent Lambs of Chri&s;t, who would have done the Work without Sword or Rapine; I &s;ay, in this the Lord's Day which ha&s;tens, &s;hall <HI>they feel ten times triple the vengeance of the Lord, of which they have already an earne&s;t;</HI> but that is to them <HI>but the beginning of &s;orrows;</HI> for their <HI>latter end</HI> &s;hall be <HI>wor&s;e</HI> then <HI>their beginning.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the Word of the living God to thee <HI>O Eu|rope,</HI> fal&s;ely (now) called <HI>Chri&s;tendom;</HI> and to the <HI>Prophane,</HI> the <HI>Super&s;titious,</HI> the <HI>Idolatrous,</HI> the <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ors</HI> (of the Ju&s;t) the <HI>Hypocrites,</HI> and all the <HI>&s;uper-abounding &s;warms of Anti|chri&s;ts</HI> and <HI>fal&s;e Prophets</HI> within thee; from him that is by the now di&s;orderly World permitted <HI>to beg,</HI> even <HI>to him</HI> that fits upon the highe&s;t <HI>Earthly Throne,</HI> or pretends to u&s;urp the <HI>Spiritual Throne,</HI> to make and pre&s;cribe Laws there (to wit) in the Con&s;cience of man, which is the rightful Seat and Temple of the living God onely; and the <HI>Rebel</HI> and <HI>U&s;ur|per</HI> he hates, and the Hypocrite &s;hall not enter within his Re&s;t; I &s;ay, This is the Word of the Lord to <HI>that part</HI> of the World call'd <HI>Chri&s;tendom,</HI> but mo&s;t e&s;pecially, particu|larly and immediately <HI>to thee O England,</HI> the Land of my Nativity.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to all the prophane within thee, who ru&s;h into all &s;orts of Iniquity, even as the hor&s;e into the Battel, mo&s;t greedily <HI>bowing the knee to Baal,</HI> &s;triking hands <HI>with all man|ner of Super&s;tition, Idolatry</HI> and <HI>Uncleanne&s;s,</HI> crying <HI>Aloud</HI> with the fal&s;e Prophets, <HI>A Confederacy, A Confederacy</HI> with what&s;oever is again&s;t the Lord and his Annointed. As al&s;o <HI>to the very Be&s;t</HI> and well-favoured (as well as wor&s;t) Phari&s;aical Hypocritically-Religious Harlot, and to all thy whited Walls within thy utmo&s;t Confines, who&s;e pretences have been, and &s;till are as broad and large as from thy Sea to Sea, <HI>(Ah pooor abu&s;ed Land!)</HI> But they are but pre|tences
<PB N="5" REF="6"> of intruding pretenders, they have been tryed to the full; and God the Lord hath laid his Ax to the very root of them that <HI>vowed</HI> (in his pre&s;ence) <HI>and not performed;</HI> and they are but for the pre&s;ent <HI>hewn up,</HI> bundled together (left to them&s;elves) <HI>marked</HI> and <HI>ca&s;t by</HI> from further cum|bering God's ground, and that every man may &s;ay, <HI>that's he,</HI> or, <HI>that's one of them;</HI> but be as &s;ure as the Lord God of Vengeance liveth, he will hereafter plead with them in the Valley of Deci&s;ion, <HI>[mark that]</HI> when neither <HI>Moun|tain, Fle&s;h</HI> nor <HI>Hill,</HI> &s;hall &s;carcely &s;o much as <HI>pity,</HI> or <HI>cry, <HI>Alas</HI> for thee.</HI> And although thou ha&s;t abu&s;ed <HI>thy</HI> &s;elf, de|ceived <HI>the &s;imple,</HI> and betrayed <HI>the innocent, day</HI> after <HI>day, time</HI> after <HI>time,</HI> and <HI>&s;ea&s;on</HI> after <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI> into the hands of unrea&s;onable men, (and ha&s;t murdered &s;everal of the inno|cent Lambs) yet now deceive not thy &s;elf one jot longer, God <HI>(is not)</HI> will never again by thee <HI>be mocked,</HI> but will (I &s;ay) plead and reckon mo&s;t &s;everely with thee <HI>in the Valley of Deci&s;ion,</HI> and thou &s;halt be the <HI>mi&s;erable&s;t</HI> and <HI>wretched&s;t</HI> of man-kind: In which day <HI>no fle&s;h,</HI> or any thing that's <HI>fle&s;hly,</HI> &s;hall be <HI>&s;aved;</HI> or <HI>&s;elf</HI> to <HI>its &s;elf</HI> helpful, u&s;eful, or in the lea&s;t advantageous.</P>
<P>And if the <HI>Prophane</HI> and <HI>Profe&s;&s;or</HI> can command <HI>the Sun <HI>from &s;hining,</HI> the Sea <HI>from fluxing</HI></HI> and <HI>refluxing,</HI> or the <HI>Eter|nal Light <HI>from in,</HI></HI> or <HI>within-lightning every man that cometh into the world,</HI> that thereby all men might believe and be &s;a|ved: Then they may &s;ay, <HI>Tu&s;h, <HI>there is no God, this &s;hall not come to pa&s;s.</HI></HI></P>
<P>But <HI>then,</HI> even <HI>then</HI> in the mid&s;t of all this will the Lord pity the <HI>little, little Remnant,</HI> his own Seed, and gra&s;p them in the hollow of his hand, and hide (at lea&s;t) a <HI>Remnant</HI> of a <HI>Remnant</HI> under his own Pavillion; yea [in that day] the Lord will an&s;wer his people, and &s;ay unto them, <HI>Behold, I will &s;end ye Corn, Wine and Oyle, in as much as ye &s;hall be &s;atis|fied therewith; and ye &s;hall eat in the &s;ecret-Plenty, and be fully &s;atisfied, prai&s;ing the Lord your God for ever and ever, that hath dealt wonderfully with you; for I Jehovah am the Lord your God, and my people &s;hall never be a&s;hamed, extingui&s;hed, or confoun|ded.</HI></P>
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<P>Wherefore know <HI>O Vniver&s;e,</HI> in vain are all <HI>thy Hell-deep-Plottings <HI>again&s;t</HI> the Seed Immortal;</HI> for <HI>the Man-Child</HI> which was caught up to God, <HI>is come down,</HI> and <HI>the woman</HI> is returning out of the <HI>Wilderne&s;s;</HI> and the <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> Floods, un&s;table Waters, <HI>Dragon</HI> and <HI>fal&s;e Prophets,</HI> mu&s;t be (in the life) trampled under, and the Go&s;pel mu&s;t be prea|ched again to <HI>Nations, Kindreds, Tongues</HI> and <HI>Peoples;</HI> and <HI>Amos</HI> the now dejected <HI>Herd&s;man,</HI> mu&s;t not, &s;hall not be prohibited from entering into <HI>the Chappel of a King.</HI> Wherefore let the weak in the Lord &s;ay, <HI>I am &s;trong;</HI> but let the knees of the Rebellious <HI>fail him,</HI> and let them be forced down to the Valley of God's Controver&s;ie: Get thee down (&s;aith the Lord) for the Pre&s;s is full; and the Fats of thy Idolatrous Abominations overflow &amp; &s;tink, and thy &s;uper-abundant Wickedne&s;s hath (and hourly doth) provoke the ju&s;t God, and grieve the &s;ouls of his righteous <HI>Lots,</HI> yea the Lot of his own Inheritance; but <HI>the wickedne&s;s</HI> of <HI>the wicked</HI> &s;hall <HI>be &s;topt,</HI> and <HI>a hook</HI> of the mighty Strength &s;hall <HI>be riveted into the Jaws of the Levia|than,</HI> and the teeth of <HI>that Con&s;cience-Oppre&s;&s;or</HI> &s;hall be ut|terly <HI>broken;</HI> And although <HI>Baal</HI> and his <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> may &s;trive to hinder this, (and confound each other) and the gree|dy dumb dogs, the blind Watch-men who Divine for money, pieces of bread, and hand-fulls of Barley, &s;hould or may in the &s;trength of (and for) Wine, and &s;trong Meats, prophe&s;ie lyes of Deliverance, (and be believed by any as blind as them&s;elves) <HI>verily, verily</HI> they &s;hall not &s;ave <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> nor one creature (that continues to believe in their Sorceries) <HI>out of the Ditch.</HI></P>
<P>And the <HI>Armed man</HI> in that day &s;hall not be able to &s;trengthen <HI>his Force,</HI> nor <HI>the Mighty Man</HI> deliver him|&s;elf; [Mark] Neither &s;hall he that rideth upon the Hor&s;e, and handleth the Sword or Battle-Ax mo&s;t ex|qui&s;itely, thereby be inabled <HI>to make his E&s;cape;</HI> and the <HI>Lyon</HI> &s;hall be afraid <HI>of the Lamb,</HI> who mu&s;t and will have the Victory; and he that may be &s;aid to be the Mighti|e&s;t among men, in that day <HI>&s;hall quake,</HI> and the mo&s;t
<PB N="7" REF="7"> <HI>Couragious</HI> &s;hall <HI>&s;hiver</HI> and <HI>howle;</HI> For the <HI>Lyon</HI> of <HI>Ju|dah hath <HI>roared,</HI> Who will not fear?</HI> The LORD hath <HI>&s;poken aloud, who can but Prophe&s;ie, that</HI> Babylon, <HI>her</HI> Merchants, Upholders <HI>and</HI> Adherents <HI>&s;hall fall, &s;ink,</HI> and <HI>never ri&s;e again?</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore, <HI>O ye fondlings</HI> of all &s;orts out of the Truth, in the <HI>Set-Forms, Sects</HI> and <HI>Likene&s;&s;es</HI> what&s;o|ver, come out of her <HI>quickly,</HI> before &s;he receive <HI>her fa|tal plunge:</HI> O ye unwi&s;e <HI>prating Virgins,</HI> be &s;ilent, make ha&s;te, make good &s;peed into, within the Vail, before the impenitrable Door be &s;hut: I &s;ay, <HI>Sink down,</HI> turn in to within, to the ju&s;t mea&s;ure of God within, (given to every man to profit withall) and hearken there di|ligently (in the Light) to that &s;till Voice, the Word, the Bread which comes down from Heaven, which will bring to the beginning, from off your own barren Moun|tain, or &s;tately Edifice (of your own making) into the bread of Life, quite out of the &s;everal deficient Ci&s;terns which your own hands have hewn, into the River of Life in your own bellyes, which by your own Inven|tions is dam'd up: Oh! come out of Words, into the Word, which is nigh in the heart, in the month, that ye may hear, obey and do it, and live for ever: O love that, and let that (the Word) dwell richly in you, which will cut down, and wholly root out the whori&s;h Wo-man within in your &s;elves, which is not permitted to &s;peak in the Church, the which &s;teals the Prophets, Chri&s;t's, and his Apo&s;tles words; O that's the Clamberer, the Thiefe, and the Robber, that doth not enter in by the Door, the Light, the Life, the Way.</P>
<P>I further &s;ay to him <HI>that's spotted,</HI> Let him forth|with in good-will to <HI>Sion, take up the Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>clean&s;e his wrinckled heart,</HI> and try his Reins; yea, I &s;ay, (not I, but the Lord) Let him <HI>that's unclean,</HI> wa&s;h quickly and throughly in the Cro&s;s, by, and with the <HI>living Hy&s;op</HI> in him&s;elf; For the Day is at hand, <HI>that
<PB N="8" REF="8"> he who is fil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hy,</HI> (with the filthy) <HI>may be filthy &s;till.</HI> Where|fore in the Eternal fear, let every &s;oul that hath re|bell'd again&s;t the Light, be &s;ubject to the higher Pow|er, and immediately take the fir&s;t offered wing of the Morning, and flye for his Life <HI>out of Self, into the Life,</HI> which is crucified <HI>in your &s;elves</HI> becau&s;e of Self; from which the Wo-man, the unprofitable talker, the vain babbler, boa&s;ts in the line of another man, (who&s;e Voice the Sheep cannot own) which mu&s;t not, is not permitted to &s;peak in the Church. Oh <HI>Male</HI> and <HI>Fe|male, man married or unmarried,</HI> (according to the fle&s;h) ask that que&s;tion at home, within, of <HI>thy Head,</HI> thy <HI>Husband,</HI> thy <HI>Maker; For that which may be known of God, is manife&s;t in thee.</HI> O Male &amp; Female-man, where|fore keep thine <HI>to within,</HI> in <HI>thy Head,</HI> and <HI>the Head</HI> of e|very man is <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us:</HI> The Fools Eye <HI>is abroad,</HI> but the wi&s;e man's Eye is <HI>within in his Head,</HI> in the one one|ly, one thing needful, wholly out of the many things, (in which all men &s;in:) <HI>But he that's born of God,</HI> (and &s;tays within, in God, who is light) <HI>&s;ins not;</HI> and the ble&s;&s;ed and &s;inle&s;s JESUS, came <HI>to &s;ave</HI> his people <HI>from</HI> (not in) <HI>their &s;ins:</HI> [Mark] And he that's <HI>a Chri&s;tian,</HI> is <HI>like Chri&s;t;</HI> and as he is, &s;o were, and are the Saints in the pre&s;ent evil world. Wherefore all that profe&s;s his Name out of the unbelieving ha&s;t, make (good) &s;peed into the pure, perfect, holy and &s;inle&s;s Life; yea, let the Godly be like God; be ye perfect, be ye holy as your Heavenly Father is holy.</P>
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<HEAD>A Word of Encouragement to the Faithful, to be faithful &s;till.</HEAD>
<P>ANd ye my Brethren &amp; Si&s;ters, the little de&s;pi&s;ed, op|pre&s;&s;ed Flock, and gathered Seed and Lambs of God the Lord, Keep in your &s;weet Innocency, in your proper places and &s;phears, <HI>out of,</HI> and <HI>over all.</HI> Stir not <HI>to the left,</HI> neither look <HI>to the &s;eeming Right;</HI> but out of the di|&s;tru&s;t, even and upright in the Seed, in the Life, in your own keep; ye have been faithful in a little, ye &s;hall be
<PB N="9" REF="8"> Ma&s;ter over much; for the mighty &s;hout of a King is heard <HI>in the mid&s;t of us;</HI> the Lord of Ho&s;ts <HI>is our Leader,</HI> and the everla&s;ting God of Salvation <HI>is our Rearward;</HI> For by him we have (without Carnal Sword) run thorow a Troop; by him we have gave Battel to a Legion, and by him (the &s;ame God) we, the Faithful, &s;hall &s;et our feet upon the Moun|tains, and leap over the Wall, and through, and over the Seas of Cruelty we mu&s;t pa&s;s; yea, the many Waters mu&s;t divide, and give <HI>way;</HI> for the God of Strength is <HI>infallibly on our &s;ide;</HI> wherefore let not the &s;eeming Giants in the way, or the wor&s;t of Tidings at all afright ye; but let the living pa&s;s on. And as the Eternal moves, <HI>Thre&s;h <HI>the Mountains,</HI> Trample <HI>upon the Hills,</HI> Rebuke <HI>the Whore,</HI> Cha&s;ti&s;e <HI>the Di|viner,</HI></HI> and <HI>&s;uffer not the <HI>Witch,</HI></HI> or <HI>Poy&s;oner <HI>to live;</HI></HI> for, for that purpo&s;e hath the Lord <HI>Jehovah</HI> be-tru&s;ted his Spiritu|al Weapon (which is Mighty) into your hands, (and let <HI>the Whore peri&s;h,</HI> rather <HI>than your &s;elves wither:</HI>) Do violence <HI>to no man,</HI> &s;eek, and reach to the good in all; In the Dread and Power of God, <HI>preach</HI> the Go&s;pel unto all freely and boldly, in &s;ea&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on, without re&s;pect of per|&s;ons, place or time; committing your righteous Cau&s;e to the Father; patiently &s;uffer <HI>all things,</HI> yea, <HI>your &s;elves to be abu&s;ed,</HI> and your Goods <HI>&s;poiled;</HI> for Great <HI>is,</HI> and <HI>&s;hall be your Reward,</HI> (and as ye have done) willingly give your backs to the &s;miter, and your cheeks to have the hair pull'd off: Ye have been men of &s;orrows, and ever &s;ince ye were a people, deeply acquainted with grief; And yet <HI>Alas, alas,</HI> poor precious Seed of God, ye mu&s;t be tryed, abu&s;ed, and mo&s;t &s;hamefully intreated once more. But <HI>wo, wo, wo,</HI> from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth <HI>to them that do it.</HI></P>
<P>This in the motion and fear of the Lord, is tran&s;cribed by the hand of me <HI>Edward Billing,</HI> who neither <HI>hates</HI> or <HI>fears</HI> any man, but am a lover of all men in the Lord, being as willing <HI>to dye for</HI> (as to live in) <HI>his truth,</HI> to &s;ee the accom|pli&s;hment of what is here declared; who&s;e Pri&s;oner I am (through the Cruelty of unrea&s;onable men) for the Te&s;ti|mony
<PB N="10" REF="9"> of that Eternal Je&s;us, who &s;aith, <HI>Swear not all.</HI></P>
<P>And I &s;ay, <HI>Above all things my Brethren, &s;wear not, <HI>by; to, for,</HI></HI> or <HI>again&s;t <HI>any man, Thing,</HI></HI> or <HI>Creature in Heaven,</HI> or up|on the <HI>Earth</HI> what&s;oever; but let your <HI>yea</HI> be <HI>yea,</HI> and your <HI>nay, nay;</HI> and becau&s;e of Oaths this Land mourns, and the Cur&s;e is intailed upon the Hou&s;e of the Swearers, Lyars and Hypocrites; and they who &s;hall &s;till per&s;i&s;t and refu&s;e to hear that Great and Mighty Prophet (which is the per|formed Oath of God, of whom Oaths were a type) who &s;aid, <HI>Swear not at all;</HI> and teach others &s;o to do; It &s;wiftly comes to pa&s;s, that they &s;hall be cut off from among the people; <HI>For my &s;pirit &s;hall not always &s;trive with man, &s;aith the Lord.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then will I turn to the People a pure Language, that they may all call upon the Name of the Lord, to &s;erve him with one con&s;ent: I will al&s;o leave in the mid&s;t of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they &s;hall tru&s;t in the Name of the Lord. The remnant of I&s;rael &s;hall not do iniquity, nor &s;peak lyes; neither &s;hall a deceitful Tongue be found in their Mouth; for they &s;hall feed, and lye down, and none &s;hall make them afraid. The Lord is in the mid&s;t of thee, thou &s;halt not &s;ee evil any more. I will ga|ther them that are &s;orrowful, for the &s;olemn A&s;&s;embly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I wil undo all that afflict thee, and I will &s;ave her that hal|teth, and gather her that was driven out; and I wil get them a prai&s;e and fame in every Land where they have been put to &s;hame; at that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I ga|ther you; for I will make you a Name, and a prai&s;e among all People of the Earth, when I turn back your Captivity before your eyes, &s;aith the Lord. Zeph.</HI> 3.9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>The tenth of the tenth Month, 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<Q><P>Ari&s;e, Ari&s;e, Help, Help, and Deliver for thy Name &s;ake, O Lord our God.</P></Q>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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