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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28134	A warning from the Lord God of life and power unto thee o city of London, and to the suburbs round about thee : to call thee and them to repentance & amendment of life, without which you cannot see God : be ye separated from your priests, and from your idolatrous worship, and touch not the unclean thing, that the Lord may receive you ... and something also to the scattered seed of God, which hath been held in bondage under Pharaoh the Task-master : who am hated by the unwise, and foolish in heart, and am reproachfully call'd a Quaker / Ester Biddle.	Biddle, Ester.	1660 (1660)	Wing B2866; ESTC R37073	19,970	24

but have none and for the dawning of the day but it shall not appear glad tidings shall be hid from thee sorrow and trouble and fear shall compass thee about thou shalt wish for death rather then life and for the grave but shall not find it then shalt thou seek to thy Priests thy Rulers and Judges who have caused thee to erre thinking thereby to get peace but shalt find none the earth shall not bring forth unto thee her encrease as in times past and as thy vultrous eye hath been delighted with vanity and thy adulterated ear hath been filled with curiosities of strange voices and thy heart hath been filled with lust pride and vanity thy tongue exercised with cursing swearing and lying cheating and cozening and taking the Name of the Lord in vain and as thy feet hath walked after pleasures and thy hand hath handled deceitfulness guile and fraud and have been all servants unto sin and fulfilling the devils will even so must the Vengeance and Plagues of the Lord be powred out upon the Man of Sin which hath captivated thy mind and misled thy members which was created only and alone to serve the living God the Creator of Heaven and Earth O! what rioting swearing cursing and drunkenness murder whoredome and theft is found in thee which grieveth the soul of the righteous cozening and cheating deceiving souls for dishonest gain buying and selling the Words of God on the Market day and in the Idols Temple all this is found in thee which Words of God the holy men of God spoke them to the people freely as they had freely received they coveted no mans gold or silver but having food rayment they were therewith content and they who preached freely were Co-heirs with Christ who had purchased a City for them whose Builder and Maker is God they said to the Scribes and Pharisees which sate in Moses Chair who had the Prophets words read amongst them that they would not enter in themselves nor let others to enter in They said also that they might all prophesie one by one and if any thing was revealed to one that stood by he was to speak and the first was to hold his peace for God is a God of Order but in this our day which is the Lords and the time wherein we are cast if any in the Spirit of the Lord come amongst you and be moved to speak in his power thou beatest and bruisest and hallest before thy Magistrates and castest into prisons by this we see plainly and clearly that thy Religion is not the pure Religion and that thy Church is the Church of Rome and thou art governed by the Whores power which God is laying wast and dashing to pieces in this his glorious day Thy clouds of Religion be they never so thick they are seen thorongh in the light and power of God we do measure the height the length depth and breadth of all thy Religion thy Sun is eclipsed and thy glory is fallen O thou Lucifer Son of the Morning thy portion is in the lowermost hell thy part and lot is vanished away and thy beauty is driven away as the dust in the Summers day before the wind woe from the Lord God of Power be unto thy lawyers for they have stollen away the key of knowledge O the oppressed groaneth under their cruel tyranny of oppression they lie in wait to ensnare the simple and to beguile and intrap the honest-hearted but the Lord loveth the pure in heart and preserveth them out of the Lions mouth and out of the paw of the Bear glory be to God on high Dominion and strength be given to his Son for evermore Howl ye Lawyers weep bitterly ye Rulers and Judges lament ye Priests for the day of Gods account is coming on and it hasteneth wherein the Book of Conscience shall be opened wherein your sins are written as with the point of a Diamond and out of the Book of Life you shall be judged according as your works shall be so shall your reward be for our God is pure and immortal he will torment the wicked and plague the ungodly and cast into the pit for ever O! I most humbly beseech you as in Christ stead leave off your covetousness with your hypocritical Religion your fained prayers and abhor your selves in dust and ashes that repentance and amendment of Life you may know with the Lord before thy house of clay be dissolved for the Son of Life weepeth over thee as he did over Jerusalem O that thy eyes were open and thy heart unvailed that thou mights see how good the Lord is unto all the sons and daughters of men and how long he hath tendered his mercy and grace unto thee and hath held forth his hand with a cup of blessings for thee but thou hast joyned issue with the transgressor and art rebellions and stiff-necked against the Seed of God the Lord God make thee sensible of thy back-slidings and heal thee if he see it good O! my soul is truly powred forth unto the Lord for thee that thou may est not inherit the Lake which is prepared but peace and rest for thy immortal soul thou mayest find for the soul is immortal and there is no mortal thing can satisfie thy soul but the presence of the Lord which is far beyond the gold of Ophir or the Onick stone O! what wouldst thou give for peace with God when thy day shall be turned into darness thy table shall be made a snare unto thee and thou shalt be like the hearth in the Wildernesse which seeth not when good cometh thy lovers shall pass away trouble shall compass thee round about then if thou hadst the whole world thou wouldst give it for peace with God but then will thy day be sealed up and there will be no place found for repentance therefore I desire thee in the dreadful power of God put not the day of the Lord afar off but let the Sword of the Lord cut down and the fire burn up all that is contrary to God and away with thy Idols down with thy Images pluck down thy high places for the Lord will be avenged of thy Groves thy strong Okes and tall Cedars and he will ride upon thy high hills and thy fenced City will he lay waste and he will ease the innocent and deliver the oppressed thy prison doors shall be broke up and the bonds of iniquity burst asunder the agreement made with hell and death will be disannulled and though many of us have been halled out of your Mass-houses and have been halled before Magistrates both by Papists and Protestants yet know this that our God in whom we trust he lives for ever and he sits as Judge amongst the Gods O! the fury of the Lord is gone forth against the wicked and they shall not prosper and although they may reign for a while and build their nests in the stars for a short time and joyn