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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<P>A &s;erious and earne&s;t Exhortation and &s;ea&s;onable Warning given forth in two Epi&s;tles to the People and Inhabitants of <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> being the Breathings of one of the de&s;pi&s;ed Sufferers for the ble&s;sed Truth (in &s;corn called a <HI>Qua|ker</HI>) within their City, while <HI>I</HI> was un|der deep Exerci&s;e of &s;pirit, &amp; Travail on their behalf for &s;everal dayes; &s;o that I was made to become as a &s;ign un|to them, to warn them to flee from the Wrath to come by &s;peedy Repentance, who am known by the Name of</P>
<P>Andrew Jaffray.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Magi&s;trates and Inhabitants of the City of <HI>Aber|deen;</HI> and Country there about.</HEAD>
<P>YET once more am I moved of the Lord to warn you in his Name; and that I may clear my &s;elf of your Blood in his Sight, do I at this time warn you, cry unto you and be&s;eech you in true Love to your Souls, that you
<PB N="2" REF="2"> go not on any longer in the Hardne&s;s and Impenitency of your Hearts, &s;lighting, de&s;pi&s;ing, and &s;hutting your Eyes again&s;t, mocking at, and per&s;ecuting the Work of God, and cruelly handling the de&s;pi&s;ed Witne&s;&s;es of his ble&s;&s;ed Truth, in this day, le&s;t he give you up &s;peedily, and &s;eal you up under ju|dicial Hardne&s;s, Impenitency and Blindne&s;s, and cea&s;e to &s;trive any longer with you, having &s;o long waited on, warned and cal|led you to Repentance, both by his Witne&s;s in your own Con|&s;ciences, and by his Me&s;&s;engers and Servants; and that even while ye have (many of you) been continuing to de&s;pi&s;e, mock and per&s;ecute them and their Te&s;timony, to your Power; and &s;eeking to have them and their Te&s;timony rooted out from a|mong&s;t you; who yet have been tho&s;e, who (while thus u&s;ed by you) have &s;tood in the Gap, wre&s;tling and praying for you, that the burning Wrath of an offended God, might not break|forth and con&s;ume you, becau&s;e of the &s;o great Oppre&s;&s;ion of his Innocent Seed and Witne&s;s in your Hearts, by the &s;o a|bounding of <HI>Deceit and Hypocri&s;ie, Pride, Drunkenne&s;s, &V;nclean|ne&s;s, Cruelty and Per&s;ecution,</HI> &amp; other Abominations among you.</P>
<P>Oh be not any longer deceived with the Fal&s;e Doctrines, &amp; Sin-plea&s;ing &s;mooth things that your Teachers prophe&s;ie unto you; who, while they &s;eem to cry out again&s;t, and dehort you from Sin, yet really they &s;ooth and harden you in it; being &s;o far from telling you of any Power whereby ye may &s;o over|come Sin, as to be fully &s;et free from it (as by that mea&s;ure of the Light and Life of Chri&s;t, to which we direct you in your own Hearts, ye may, if ye would heed and obey it) that on the contrary they teach you, that there is no Po&s;&s;ibility of keeping out of Sin, or being fully &s;et free from it in this Life; as if Chri&s;t were not a compleat Saviour, and both able, and willing fully to clean&s;e his People, and &s;ave them from the Filth of Sin, as well as from the Guilt of it, and Puni&s;hment thereof.</P>
<P>Oh be not any longer deluded, nor led to De&s;truction by
<PB N="4" REF="2"> the&s;e Sin-plea&s;ing Doctrines; for I declare unto you, in a mea|&s;ure of the Fear and Dread of the living God, God is not, nor will not be mockt; as every one of you do &s;ow here, &amp; not other|wayes, &s;hall ye reap hereafter, whether to Fle&s;h or Spirit: And notwith&s;tanding all your profe&s;&s;ion and Lip-labour, if ye go on in your Iniquities, and come not to Repentance by turning in your minds to that Mea&s;ure of the Manife&s;tation of the Spirit in your Hearts, that thereby you may feel Sin di&s;covered unto you, and dayly co&s;umed in you by the Brightne&s;s of his Come|ing, as a Refiners Fire, and Fullers Soap, till you be fully purified and clean&s;ed there-from; otherwayes (I &s;ay) for all your great Profe&s;&s;ion, you &s;hall peri&s;h forever, and the Wrath of God will break out upon you. Oh that you may repent, and be awakened, and leave off &s;peedily the Evil of your Doings, and your De&s;pi|&s;ing and Per&s;ecuting the Work and Servants of the Lord, be|fore the Cup of your Iniquities be full, le&s;t the Cup of Red Wine in the Hand of the Lord be poured out upon you; for it is full, and if ye repent not, <HI>Ye &s;hall be made to drink it off, even the Drugs of the Cup of Trembling.</HI> Oh! how near is it to be poured out, if thus ye continue, and upon &s;uch of you as &s;hall continue thus to provoke the Lord by &s;lighting all his Invitati|ons and Warnings, to break off your Iniquities by Repentance, and to leave off to per&s;ecute his Servants and Witne&s;&s;es, and their Te&s;timony, which mu&s;t and &s;hall prevail over all, though now &s;o much de&s;pi&s;ed, and its Followers, as Men wondered at, accounted as Fools &amp; Mad-men by the wi&s;e of this World. Ah how will ye an&s;wer the Lord when he comes to judge you for the&s;e things; when ye &s;hall be found to have been Fighters a|gain&s;t God &amp; his Work? Repent, Repent therefore, and do no more &s;o; otherwi&s;e, I warn you this day, the Lord will not always bear with you; but for the Sake of his own oppre&s;&s;ed Seed in your Hearts, and his De&s;pi&s;ed and Per&s;ecuted Work &amp; Witne&s;s, <HI>He will ari&s;e and ea&s;e him&s;elf of his Adver&s;aries.</HI> And ah! how
<PB N="4" REF="3"> Dreadful, and Terrible will his Judgments be? Oh that ye may &s;peedily flee from them; and &s;o that this poor City may be &s;aved from the Stroke of the <HI>De&s;troying Angel,</HI> which is ready to break in upon it, if not by &s;peedy Repentance and A|mendment prevented.</P>
<P>The Lord the Searcher of Hearts knows, I nor my Brethren, who have been mocked, de&s;pi&s;ed, reproached and per&s;ecuted among you, have not, nor do not de&s;ire the ha&s;tening of this e|vil Day nor that it may come upon you at all, but rather, if it be po&s;&s;ible, that it may be prevented by your Repentance and Amendment.</P>
<P>So Dear Friends and People, lay it to Heart, lay it to Heart in time, and harden not your Hearts, neither be ye Mockers, le&s;t your Bands be made &s;trong; and that ye may, even all of you, find yet a place of Repentance, and &s;o be forgiven, and ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">+ain Mercy, is the true De&s;ire of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend and Soul's Well-wi&s;her A. J.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Aberdeen</HI> Pri&s;on <DATE>the 26th. of the 3<HI>d</HI> Mo. 1677.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Some dayes after my writing of this Paper, my Travail and Exer|ci&s;e continuing, and having got my outward Liberty for a little time, upon an outward Occa&s;ion, I was moved upon the 1&s;t day of the 4th Moneth (being a publick Market-day) to go through the Streets of the City Naked, with Man's Dung in my Hand, and afterwards to &s;catter &s;ome of the above-written Papers at the Market-Cro&s;s, from which being carried, and haled again to Pri|&s;on, it aro&s;e a little after with me, to write and give forth the fol|lowing Paper, for clearing my Mind more fully, and giving Satis|faction, &s;o far as I may to all, concerning my Call to, and the Ground and Matter of the Exerci&s;e I had among them the &s;aid Day.</P>
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<HEAD>A VVarning and &s;erious Exhortation, to the Inhabitants of the Town of <HI>Aber|deen,</HI> and Country there about.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friends and People,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lord God of Heaven and of Earth, who&s;e Eyes are piercing, and purer then to behold Iniquity, &s;ees through all the Coverings of Profe&s;&s;ion that are not of his Spirit; and he will &s;peedily di&s;cover the Nakedne&s;s of all &s;uch as are covered with any other Covering, as <HI>Painted Sepulchres, and Whited Walls, while inwardly full of dead mens Bones and Rottenne&s;s;</HI> full of Pride, Hypocri&s;ie, Wantonne&s;s, Earthly-mindedne&s;s, and all manner of Abominations, and yet boldly profe&s;&s;ing them+&s;elves to be Chri&s;tians, and offering Daily Wor&s;hip and Sacri+fice to God, while they know not the inward Purity of Heart&punc; from whence the pure Offerings of <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> offered up, and accepted of the Lord, and are as a &s;weet Savou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> in his No&s;trils, coming from the Leadings and Movings of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> own pure Spirit, and that pure heavenly Birth of its begettin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the Soul; which who&s;oever knows not, nor their Heart thereby in &s;ome mea&s;ure turned from, and begun to be redeem+ed out of the Earth, Vanities, Wickedne&s;s and Filthine&s;s of i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> and yet go on with their Mouthes and Lips mocking God, by Deceitful, Hypocritical Profe&s;&s;ion, and Will-wor&s;hip in the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> own Will, Time and Strength, all the Profe&s;&s;ion and Wor+&s;hip of &s;uch is but as Dung; Yea, as a Stink and evil Savour i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> his No&s;trils, which he will ca&s;t back in your Faces, and &s;trip you naked and bare; as in the Day that ye were born; and pour out the Vial of his Wrath upon you, unle&s;s you &s;peedily re|pent,
<PB N="6" REF="4"> and turn to his Light and Witne&s;s in your Hearts, and bring all your Deeds and Out&s;ide Profe&s;&s;ion thereto, that there|by ye may be &s;earched, and di&s;covered to your &s;elves; and re|deemed and purged by a Spirit of Judgment and Burning, in your inward Parts, from that mo&s;t Deceitful, Wicked Spirit, that &s;o blinds and hardens you, as to make you believe, you are wor&s;hipping and &s;erving God; and are Chri&s;tians, while ye are &s;o contrary to the meek and lowly Nature of Chri&s;t, who pray|ed for, and commanded to <HI>Forgive and Love Enemies,</HI> that your Hands are full (as of many other Abominations,) &s;o of of Cruelty and Per&s;ecution, either by acting, or con&s;ulting to the oppre&s;&s;ing and bearing down the innocent Servants and Witne&s;&s;es of God, and his Work in and among them, having no other Crime to lay to their Charge, but their Faithfulne&s;s, and Obedience to God, <HI>Not for&s;aking the a&s;&s;embling of them|&s;elves together;</HI> for wor&s;hiping God in Spirit and Truth, ac|cording to his Leadings and Guidings; while in the mean time the <HI>Drunkards and Swearers, the Whore-ma&s;ters and profane Stage players</HI> are entertained, kept Fellow&s;hip with, and &s;uffer|ed to live peaceably among you.</P>
<P>Oh how is the Wrath of God burning again&s;t you for the&s;e and other Abominations among you! And how near is your Cup to be full, and the Sickle to be thru&s;t in, to cut you down, as ready for the Wine-pre&s;s of the Wrath of God, if &s;peedily ye turn not, and break off your Wickedne&s;s by Repentance.</P>
<P>Oh how long hath the Lord born with you, invited and cal|led unto you &s;aying, <HI>Turn you, turn you, why will ye dye?</HI> even while ye have been going on per&s;ecuting, and cruelly handling his Servants, mocking at and de&s;pi&s;ing his Work, which &s;hall pro&s;per over all Oppo&s;ition: But Wo to them who are &s;tum|bled at, and continue to &s;tumble at this Stumbling-Stone, and Rock of Offence; which, though the Builders have rejected, yet &s;hall it, mu&s;t it become the Head of the Corner, and will
<PB N="7" REF="4"> grind all to Powder upon whom it falls, who refu&s;e to fall upon it to be broken off from, and made to part with all their Iniqui|ties, and Hearts-Lu&s;ts and Idols. Oh turn to it, obey it, even the Light of Chri&s;t in every one of your Con&s;ciences. <HI>Ki&s;s the Son le&s;t he be angry, and ye peri&s;h from the Way; for if his Wrath is kindled but a little ble&s;t are all they that put their tru&s;t in him;</HI> &amp; verily Friends, his Wrath is burningas an oven, &amp; ready to break forth, unle&s;s you &s;peedily repent; for he will not always &s;uffer his Seed to beoppre&s;&s;ed by the Wickedne&s;s of Men; and his Work &amp; Witne&s;&s;es to be de&s;pi&s;ed, mocked and per&s;ecuted among you.</P>
<P>But Oh! how willing is he; who delights not in, nor de&s;ires the Death of any one Sinner, that ye &s;hould turn and repent, that &s;o his Wrath may be yet turned away from you; therefore he hath &s;ent you Line upon Line, Warning upon Warning, both by his Witne&s;s in your Hearts, and his Servants and Wit|ne&s;&s;es without you: Yea, Signs and Wonders have been &s;ent a|mong you, as of old he &s;ent to the Children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and the Nations about, by tho&s;e who were then as much de&s;pi&s;ed as we are now.</P>
<P>And among other Warnings ye have got to call you to Re|pentance, before your Cup be altogether Full, was I, as one of his de&s;pi&s;ed Followers, moved of the Lord pre&s;&s;ed in Spi|rit, and con&s;trained by the Love of God to give up my Body as a Sign and a Wonder unto you, by going Naked through your Streets, with Man's Dung in my Hand, as a Sign from the Lord that your Nakedne&s;s was &s;peedily to be di&s;covered, if ye repent not; and that all your Fig Leaves of Profe&s;&s;ion, and Out&s;ide Will wor&s;hip (being a Covering too narrow for your Nakedne&s;s) while walking in the Spirit and Vices above writ|ten, was much more loath&s;ome, and abominable in his Sight, and of a more loath&s;ome Savour in his No&s;trils, then the vile&s;t Dung can be in yours.</P>
<P>And whatever the worldly and carnal Wi&s;dom of Man in you
<PB N="8" REF="5"> may judge of the &s;eeming Madne&s;s and Folly of this my Behavi|our, yet the Day is coming, and ha&s;tening apace, that either in Mercy (as ye take warning and repent) or in Wrath (as ye conti|nue to &s;light and mock) ye &s;hall be made to confe&s;s, I wanted not a Warrant for what I did.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. J.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q>The Lord is making, and will yet more make the Diviners mad in this Day, and confound the Wi&s;dom of this World by Fooli&s;h|ne&s;s; and things that are (e&s;teemed of Man) will he bring to Nought by things that are not.</Q>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Aberdeen</HI> Pri&s;on, where I with many of my Brethren have been detained in Bonds for about fiveteen Mo|neths by-gone, becau&s;e of our peaceably meeting to|gether, for wor&s;hipping God in Spirit and Truth, <DATE>the 6th Day of the 4th Mon. 1677,</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>Some Books for a general Service.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I&s;aac Penington,</HI> To the <HI>Jews</HI> Natural, and to the <HI>Jews</HI> Spiritual, with a few Words to <HI>England</HI> my native Country; whereunto are added two or three Queries touching the River and City of God, and the pure Stilne&s;s, wherein God is known and exalted.</P>
<P><HI>George Fox,</HI> The Spirit of Man the Candle of the Lord; the Candle of the Wicked often put out.</P>
<P><HI>George Fox,</HI> A Te&s;timony for all the Ma&s;ters of Ships and Sea|men to read over.</P>
<P><HI>Geoge Fox,</HI> Chri&s;t's Parable of <HI>Dives</HI> and <HI>Lazarus</HI> for all called Chri&s;tians and others to con&s;ider.</P>
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