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<HEAD>TO THE HIGH, AND Lofty Ones.</HEAD>
<P>_FEar the Lord God, &amp; take heed of pride, woe unto you that are given to vanity, you grieve the Spirit of the Lord God in you, you loo&s;e &s;eriousne&s;&s;e, you loo&s;e moderation in your Apparrell, in your diet, you loo&s;e temperance, you are not temperate in your ap|parrell, nor in your diet, bow to the Lord, you evil doers, what a bowing and bending make you one to another? bow to the Lord, give him the glory, give him the honour, ye who are of|fended, that you have not the earthly honour, earthly man, earth|ly <HI>Adam,</HI> not the &s;pirituall man, the <HI>Lord from heaven heavenly,</HI> not the &s;pirituall man, the &s;econd <HI>Adam.</HI> O how do you go in your Apparrel, that you cannot &s;carce tell how to pa&s;&s;e the &s;treets! O the glory of the world hath &s;wallowed you up many of you! O! you have entered into the great temptation. What would the Devil have given Chri&s;t to have bowed down to him? Have you not the lu&s;t of the eyes? Have you not the lu&s;t of the fle&s;h? Have you not the pride of life? and yet profe&s;&s;eth Scriptures as he doth, and bow down to him who is out of the truth, Have you not your hearts de&s;ire in tho&s;e things? Are you not dre&s;&s;ed.
<PB N="2" REF="2"> &s;o in your apparrell, that you cannot &s;carce tell how to walk the &s;treets, gold, &s;ilver, jewels, old men have you lo&s;t gravity? Young men have you forgotten &s;incerity? and young women for&s;aken mode&s;ty, following vanity? O what a painting of your &s;elves you make young and old people? O the Spirit is vexed where vani|ty is. God will not alwayes &s;trive with man. O how have you forgotten the Lord, and given your &s;elves up to your hearts lu&s;ts? con&s;ider all people the dayes you &s;pend, and have &s;pent in vanity, in wantonne&s;&s;e, in fooleries and toyes, in &s;uperfluitie in naugh|tine&s;&s;e, in &s;ports, in plea&s;ures and games. Doth not &s;omething in you all prick you and check you of your unconverted e&s;tate, of your conver&s;ation in the earth, and &s;o delighting in all things in the earth, &s;etting your hearts in vanity? O old men, how can you but &s;ee and con&s;ider, is the fear of God quite gone out of your hearts? O who can but &s;peak, and not hold his tongu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">? O how is the &s;pirit grieved and vexed with your vanity and abomi|nations? O how is the Ju&s;t trodden under feet? O how is truth fallen in your &s;treets? O how is every one carried away with va|nity and vexation of &s;pirit, and covered with it? how doth men <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eel in their folly &amp; madne&s;s, that they cannot tell how to go, nor what to wear, nor what to eat, nor what to drink, nor what to put or? <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s not this the fa&s;hion of the Heathen, and not like Chri&s;tians? Un&s;et|tled minds, that run into every fa&s;hion, that invents &s;trange and new fa&s;hions? repent, repent, le&s;t Gods judgments come upon you, and &s;weep you away at unawares. O how doth your inordinate affections appear? You are exce&s;&s;ive in apparrell, you are exce&s;|&s;ive in &s;uperfluity and diet. O what good doth your Preaching, and Teaching do you? How doth it profit you at all, while you are &s;o given up into vanity, as though you never had heard talk of God, talk of Religion, talk of Chri&s;tians Prophets and Apo&s;tles? read their Declarations, and &s;ee what they declared again&s;t: the rod of God you mu&s;t be fed withall, ye Lofty and full, ye haugh|ty and high-minded; O how do you eat and drink and then ri&s;e up to play? Is not this your practice ye full ones? and fat ones? do you call this recreation, ye idle ones like the old world? and <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomorrha,</HI> fullne&s;&s;e of bread and idlene&s;&s;e who turned again&s;t <HI>Noah</HI> and <HI>Lot,</HI> the Preachers of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &s;o it is at
<PB N="3" REF="2"> this day, and &s;o it was in the dayes of the Prophets, and in he days of the Apo&s;tles, the&s;e was &s;pots in their fea&s;ts, that was begin|ning before the Apo&s;tles decea&s;e, to eat and to drink, and ri&s;e up to play, <HI>admiring mens per&s;ons becau&s;e of advantage,</HI> of who&s;e root and ofspring you are, that make your &s;elves merry over the Ju&s;t in the particular, and then in the Generall, and &s;o lives wantonly upon the earth, and in plea&s;ure, and nouri&s;h your hearts, you are of the flock that kills the Ju&s;t, root and ofspring; for the people &s;ate down to eat and drink, and ro&s;e up to play, with whom God was not well plea&s;ed, of whom God &s;lew thou&s;ands at once, there is your example, and there is your &s;tock, and there is your old Fathers, though you profe&s;&s;e the Saints words, if you read the Scriptures you may &s;ee of who&s;e &s;tock you are of? and of who&s;e Generation, and who&s;e path you goe in, therefore if you love a long life, your &s;ouls happine&s;&s;e and good, come out off vanity, come to &s;ea&s;onablene&s;s &amp; gravity, come to the Lord, come off all the barren mountains, all people come off the bar|ren mountains, that you may have refre&s;hment, of the Lord God, come off vanity, that you may be led with the &s;pirit, and not grieve it, and vex it, but that you may have unity in the &s;pirit, with the Father of &s;pirits, and unity one with another, your vanities grieve the &s;pirit, whereby you are a burden to the Creation, it's a marvell how you can walk up and down the &s;treets, and not be checked and reproved in your own particulars, for your vanity, and not be a&s;hamed. Is the witne&s;&s;e &s;tifled in you? Hath the Cu&s;tome of the &s;inne taken away the &s;en&s;e, are you pa&s;t feeling? know you not that you mu&s;t come to the du&s;t you high lofty, wanton, giddy ones? O how are you daubed with &s;ilver lace, and your Jewels, and your &s;pots of your faces, and your feathers, and your wearing of gold, and through the abundance of your vani|ty and of your &s;uperfluity, ambition and pride, loftine&s;&s;e and haughtine&s;&s;e, &s;top the ear from hearing the Lord his Decree and Sentence again&s;t you, and how he beholds you afar off, and &s;tops up the eye with which you &s;hould &s;ee your &s;elves, and &s;tops up your ear from hearing the cry of the poore, the blind and the lame that lies up and down your &s;treets, &s;o that he that regards not the poore regards not his Maker, and turning his ear
<PB N="4" REF="3"> from the poore, turns his ear from his Maker, &s;o all come to &s;o|berne&s;&s;e and mode&s;ty, and &s;hamefa&s;tne&s;&s;e, and be a&s;hamed of all your pride, and vanity, and delight in the Lord your Creator, more then the creature, the giver of all good, and take plea|&s;ure in him, and take plea&s;ure in him alone, and in his Judge|ments, if not, woe and wrath, and his plagues will come upon you. O what a pudder is hear? what a bowing and bending is here? bow to the Lord, give glory to him, give honour to him, fear him, dread the Lord, the Creator of all, of heaven and earth, of power, he will throw down all deceit, with his power. Honour you not the creature more than the Creator? Bow you not more to the Creature than the Creator? bow you not oftner with hat and knee to the Creature, than to the Creator? Give you not more honour and wor&s;hip, and re&s;pect to the Creature, than to the Creator. O &s;hamele&s;&s;e men and wo|men! God will aba&s;e your pride, and bring your honour and glory to the du&s;t, who beholds your vanity. O how have you your Lack|ies and Lads to carry your ea&s;ing &s;tools after you. O you Scorners, give over &s;corning, and O ye fools learn to be wi&s;e, all ye that are given to vanity, (for &s;hall they that are given to vanity pro&s;|per)? Hearken to the Spirit of God in you, that checks you for vanity, that you may come into the fear of God, whereby you may learn wi&s;dome, and may not de&s;troy the Creation, and that you may come to know God, whereby you may come to feel e|ternal life, that which checks you for your &s;innes, and your vani|ty, and for your going after it, whereby you may come to under|&s;tanding, and know what is vanity, and vexeth the Spirit, and what doth not vex the Spirit, that is plea&s;ing to God, that you may learn with that which gives you under&s;tanding: while you have time prize it, le&s;t your time be pa&s;t: this is the day of your vi&s;itation, love the Lord God above all his Creatures, and delight not in vanity, and to the Lord God in your generation, you may be a ble&s;&s;ing, for all the de&s;troyers of the Creation are accur&s;ed; for Woe and Mi&s;ery, and Plagues is to come upon all the World.</P>
<P>Bow you not more and oftener the hat and the knee to one a|nother, than you do unto the Lord? People cannot tell how to
<PB N="5" REF="3"> plea&s;e one another in their bowing the Hat, in Cur|ching one to another, but they will be ready to think, that I bowed my Hat oftner to him then he did to me, and I curchied more to her then &s;he did to me; And thus they are offended one at another; and &s;uch a one hath more Ribbons, and Gold and Silver on him than I have, and &s;pots on their faces, and he powders his hair and curls it; And &s;o when any is in another fa&s;hion contrary to them, then they envy one another, which is among &s;uch which have lo&s;t gravity. And are ye not here as the tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ing Children of <HI>I&s;rael mincing tinckling round attire, amongst whom mu&s;t come the &s;tink?</HI> I&s;aiah 3.</P>
<P>And are ye not out of the Apo&s;tles doctrine who &s;aith, <HI>not wearing of Gold nor broidered attire, nor plaiting of hair; but the adorning which is the hidden man of the heart.</HI></P>
<P>OH all ye Rulers of the earth, from the foundation of the world to this day, who hath been in the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the Law of God, of the life of God, out of the fear of God, &s;uch in all ages hath turned the Sword again&s;t the ju&s;t, that hath tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the ju&s;t principle of God in them&s;elves, and grafted them&s;elves into the wicked root, all &s;uch from the foundation of the world to this day; have turned the Sword backward like blinde men; &s;o hits their friends that comes with love to their &s;ouls; and &s;trikes at them in&s;tead of their enemies; ye per|&s;ecute the ju&s;t, ye kill the Saints, the Prophets, and the Son, and per&s;ecute them that be in the life of the Pro|phets and Apo&s;tles; the&s;e hath alwaies &s;trengthened the hands of the evill Doers; But them that hath repro|ved in your Gates; in your Streets, hath been your pray; you have bani&s;hed, you have whipped, you have pri&s;o|ned,
<PB N="6" REF="4"> ye have per&s;ecuted, you have burned my fle&s;h &s;aith the Lord, ye have branded, ye have marked, ye have fire and Faggots, and Hou&s;es of Correction, and Inqui|&s;itions, and &s;ending up and down Warrants, <HI>Mittimu&s;&s;es,</HI> bani&s;hing the &s;ervants of the Lord, per&s;ecuting them, be|cau&s;e they cannot bow the Hat, give you the earthly honour, not honouring the Courts as was in the days of the Martyrs for the te&s;tifying of the truth, and &s;ay <HI>thou</HI> to one, &s;hewing that you are of the earthly old <HI>Adam,</HI> drove from God into the earth, not of the <HI>&s;econd Adam the Lord from Heaven,</HI> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us who receives not honour of men. None honours the Father and the Son, but who hath received honour from God; and that which is of God, now men in ha&s;te and pa&s;&s;ion, in rage and fury and bit|terne&s;s, and prejudice the&s;e are un&s;ea&s;oned men for to be Iu&s;tices, un&s;ea&s;oned men to have honour, for hu|mility goes before the honour, proud and high minded|ne&s;s and liftings up; that looks for re&s;pect of per&s;ons, more then for truth, Iu&s;tice and equity, for if men keep down low and humble, all doing iu&s;tly, they are honoured in the hearts of all people with the iu&s;t principle of God, in all people that honours <HI>the higher power,</HI> that honours iu|&s;tice, and exalts the humility; God doth; which goes be|fore the honour, who brings down the mighty from his &s;eat, and aba&s;eth the proud, and beholds him afar off, and brings down the Lofty, and where bitterne&s;&s;e and pre|judice and burnings is in the brea&s;ts of people, they will &s;ide for parties, and be for their own ends, and what work hath men with the&s;e innocent people, which ye in &s;corn call Quakers? pri&s;oning, haling out of &s;teeple hou&s;es, &s;en|ding them as vagabonds from place to place, tho&s;e that be able people outwardly, whipping of them, and becau&s;e they cannot bow their hat to them. What work is your Iudges making with them, and fining of them, pri&s;on|ing them becau&s;e they cannot &s;wear, and pri&s;oning them, and fining them becau&s;e they cannot pay the Prie&s;t tithes, preparing war again&s;t them, becau&s;e they cannot put into
<PB N="7" REF="4"> their mouths, &s;uch as <HI>Micah</HI> cryed again&s;t, if people was not hardened, they would look into the&s;e things, and con&s;ider the&s;e things, and &s;ee all along from the foundation of the world, how they out of the fear of God per&s;ecutes, though they have got the form of words, but out of the life of them: the&s;e per&s;ecutes men becau&s;e they cannot put into the Prie&s;ts mouth, and &s;uch as held up &s;uch Prie&s;ts as are made by men, and held up in mens wills, and not by the will of God, and per&s;ecute them becau&s;e they cannot break Chri&s;ts command; but keeps it which &s;aith, <HI>&s;wear not at all;</HI> and pri&s;ons and per&s;ecutes &s;uch as cannot receive ho|nour from men; nor give honour to men which is from below; can the children of God give honour to that which God will aba&s;e and throw down? all that &s;eeks or would be honoured in the hearts of all people, mu&s;t an&s;wer the principall of God in all people, with iu&s;tice, with equity, with truth, and they mu&s;t have patience, and humblene&s;s, and mercy, for ye have whipped, ye have burned, ye have per&s;ecuted; and the&s;e things lye upon you: you that have acted the&s;e things are out of the fear of God; therefore now you that fear God who&s;e hands are clear from blood and from per&s;ecuting the innocent; and who hath done iu&s;t to the wicked; the Lord God will be your reward; you &s;hall have a Crown that is immortall; that hath kept your &s;elves from per&s;ecuting the innocent, and put a difference between the pretious and the vile; and to them that do well have been a prai&s;e; and them that have reproved &s;in in your Gates, hath not been a prey, but ye have protected them you have nouri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hed them; and the evill doer hath not &s;trengthned, happy are ye who are ho|noured in the hearts of all people, ye are in their hearts who doe iu&s;tly, loves truth, are mercifull, humble, &s;uch God exalts and honours them in the hearts of all his peo|ple with that of him&s;elf, &s;uch knows the proud and lofty cannot honour them; they will not receive the honour from them; which is but a complement, and from below; and is earthly, for that which honours a Magi&s;trate, that
<PB N="8" REF="5"> doth iu&s;tice and equity, and honours the power, it is from the principle of God in him, that keeps him humble and low, which brings him from under the occa&s;ion of the Law, which <HI>is a prai&s;e to them that doe well; and a terrour to the evill Doer.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A lover of all your &s;ouls and your eternall good, and a friend to the Creation, and the truth, and them that be in the life of God.<HI>G. F.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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