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A28133	The trumpet of the Lord sounded forth unto these three nations as a warning from the spirit of truth, especially unto thee, oh England, who art looked upon as the seat of justice, from whence righteous laws should proceed : likewise, unto thee, thou great and famous city of London, doth the Lord God of vengeance found one warning more into thine ear ... : with a word of wholsome counsel and advice unto thy kings, rulers, judges, bishops, and priests ... : together with a few words unto the royal seed ... / by one who is a sufferer for the testimony of Jesus, in Newgate, Esther Biddle.	Biddle, Ester.	1662 (1662)	Wing B2865; ESTC R38832	17,824	25

and Low Rich and Poor hath the Lord visited in this day of great Salvation and everlasting love so that none could plead inorance but many like Demas hath denyed the Truth and Imbraced this present evil World And now Oh England will the Lord try and prove all thy Inhabitants from the King that sitteth upon his Throne unto the Beggar that sitteth upon the dunghill even all sorts of professors and prophane Oh! the Fire is kindled and the Furnace is even hot in the which your works and worships Faith and Religion must be tryed and that which will not remain in the Furnace must be consumed by the Fire of the Lord for the most high and Glorious King is a trying and purifying his Children in the Furnace as Jerusalem that they may come forth as pollished Silver and well refined Gold and he hath brought many through the Furnace and hath set them as Pillars in his house to bear forth a Valiant and Noble Testimony of what they have seen tasted and handled of the Word of Life unto thy inhabitants and unto the whole World that they may fear that dreadful God who made Heaven and Earth in whose sight the whole World is but as the drop of a Bucket and at whose presence the heavens shall wax old as a garment that moths have eat and the Element shall passe away with a great noise the Earth shall be dissolved and all things therein shall mourn and the souls shall fail before him which he hath made Oh! let your King and Queen Dukes and Earls Lords and Ladies Judges and Rulers and all Bishops Deacons Priests and People in these three Nations and all the World consider their wayes worships and religions and fear and tremble before the mighty God who hath the hearts of Kings and Rulers in his hand times and seasons are with him the Dominions of the World are at his disposing who is the high and lofty One and doth Inhabit Eternity what is the Pope or the Kings of the Earth will he not bring them to judgement and turn them to dust again from whence they came Oh you high and lofty ones who spendeth God's Creation upon your lusts and doth not feed the hungry nor cloath the naked but they are ready to perish in the streets both old and young lame and blind lyeth in your streets and at your Masse-house doors crying for bread which even melteth my heart and maketh the soul of the righteous to mourn did not the Lord make all men and women upon the earth of one mould why then should there be so much honour and respect unto some men and women and not unto others but they are almost naked for want of Cloathing and almost starved for want of Bread and are you not all brethren and all under the Government of one King Oh repent least the Lord consume you and be ashamed and cloath the naked and feed the hungry and set the oppressed free Oh King thou art as head under God over these three Nations the Lord hath set thee as overseer to see Justice and true Judgement Executed in thy Dominions Oh! let all unjust Lawes and unrighteous Decrees made in thy dayes and before thy dayes be all disanul'd and made of none effect and henceforth let there be good and wholsom Lawes Established that all the honest-hearted in thy Dominions may worship the God of their Life without any molestation and if thou decreest any thing let it not grieve the Lord for the Lord God of Israel looketh for better fruit at thy hands than he did of all that are gone before thee for in the time of Ignorance God winked but now is the glorious Light of the Morning risen and God calleth all men every where to Repentance Oh you Rulers Priests and People of these three Lands I most humbly intreat you to learn Wisdom before it be too late and prudence before it be hid from your eyes Oh! leave off your old wayes and Worships and observing Dayes Times and Seasons and learn the new and living way which is the way in the Wilderness though a wafering man or a fool shall not err therein this calls for Holiness and Purity without which you cannot see the Lord therefore consider you are but Men and made of the dust of the Earth and you know not how soon you may return to your long homes and shall be seen no more have you the length of your life or the number of your dayes in your own hands have you the command of Death or can you stay its stroke nay you are but as potsheards broken by the hand of the Potter you are here to day and gone to morrow your Beauty is as the grass and your glory as the Flower thereof cut down by the hand of the Mower your Crown is mortal and will fade away Ah poor dust and ashes why do you persecute us even to Death for no other cause but for worshiping the God of Heaven Oh! do you think that the Lord is such a one as your selves or are you so vain to believe that he winks or joyns with you in Persecuting Knocking down and spilling our blood in your Streets and Murdering of us in your Prisons nay nay although he hath suffered such things to be done for the Tryal of our Faith and the filling up of the measute of your Iniquity which is near full Now will I arise saith the dreadful and terrible God who am cloathed with Vengeance as with a Robe and with Zeal as with a Garment and I will tear and devour and for Sions sake I will not be quiet and for my beloved Jerusalem I will not be silent but I will roar and thunder forth my voice out of my Holy Mountain and the Beasts shall tremble the Earth shall be as a smoke the tall Cedars shall fall and the stirdy Oakes shall be plucked up by the Roots and all things of this World shall be afraid the Bats shall go into their Holes and the Lyons into their Dens when the Lord appeareth in his Beauty to make Inquisition for blood then shall your hearts fail you for fear of those things that are coming upon you in that Terrible Day all your lovers will do you no good and your familiars will stand afar off then must you be left to the Judge of Judges where you shall see the Book of Conscience opened where your Indictments will be read at large and he will Judge you according as your deeds shall be Oh then if you have not done Justice nor loved mercy or did the thing that was Just in the sight of the Lord then shall you be Banished from the presence of the King of Heanen for evermore into utter darkness where is weeping wailing and gnashing of Teeth and you shall be a stink to Ages to come Oh! blessed and happy will it be for those Judges and Rnlers and Poople who hath clean hands and pure hearts and have not joyned

with the wicked in persecuting the Innocent surely there reward will be great in Heaven My Friends I was once of this Religion which is now in Power I was signed with the sign of the Cross baptized into the Faith my Godfathers and Godmothers Promised and Vowed that I should forsake the Devil and all his works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh and that I should keep Gods Holy Will and Commandments all the dayes of my life and when I was young my Father had me Bishop'd thinking thereby to gain a blessing for me I spent many years in Oxford where the carriages of the Schollars did trouble me in that day they were so wilde after the best sort of Religion and custom of the Nation was I brought up then the Lord drew me to this City where I applyed my heart both Evening and Morning and at noon day unto reading and hearing the Common-Prayer when there was but one place of Worship left in this City I went to it and when there Books were burned I stood for them for my heart was wholly joyned unto them and when the King's head was taken off my heart and Soul was burdened that I was even weary of my Life and the Enemy waited to devour me then did the Lord take away my hearing that I was deaf as to all Teachings of Men for a year then that Faith which I was baptized in did no good for all that the Man and Women had promised and vowed I should do I could not forsake the Pomps and Vanities and sinful lusts of the Flesh I run into and they stood alwayes before my eyes my cry was continually unto the Lord that I might put off that body of death which hindred me from his presence then did the Lord carry me to a Meeting of the People called Quakers where I was filled with the dread and Power of the Lord and it raised my Soul to bear Testimony to the Truth and after a little season the Lord set my sins in order before me and every idle word which I had spoken was brought to my remembrance where I received a just reward from the Lord and so came to have Peace of Conscience with my Saviour which I never could obtain whilst I walked with those People Oh my Friends I can truly say ever since I was a Child the witness of God pursued me and what ever I did I had no Peace in this worship or Service which is now in being it tired and vexed my tender Soul to see what a sad estate I was in but now Glory be to the Lord I am set at Liberty from this vain Religion which never profited me at all and would you have me to conform to this Religion which keepeth the Soul in the grave hay I shall never conform unto this worship whilst I have breath but shall bear my Testimony against it for I know the powerful Cod is risen to throw it down and wo be to all that uphold it Oh your Rulers be it known unto you if you will not do Justice and ease the oppressed and set the Captives free the Lord will overturn you and destroy you from being a People as he hath done in years past for his sword is in his hand and it will cut you down unless you do repent ye shall likewise perish One Warning more to the Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites OH Woe be unto you Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites and all other Officers under you for the Lord is risen in Power yea he is risen in dreadful and terrible Wrath Oh! I have seen I have seen this Night the dreadful Flames which the Lord God will cast you into Oh! your Communion-Tables which you sacrifice upon unto Devils and not unto the living God your Altars which you bow down unto and make an Image of will the dreadful Lord of Vengeance overthrow in his fiery Indignation your Surplices and Tippets and all your loathsome Robes which you dress your selves withall which are like unto a menstrous Cloth before the Eye of the pure Jehovah he will rent them all off who is the Bishop of our Souls Oh you Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites once more will the Judge of Heaven and Earth plead with you because you are a blood-thirsty Generation you are a building of Zion with blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity as your Forefathers did in the dayes of old Therefore will the Lord of the Harvest cast you heaps upon heaps as stones in the street and as mire in the high-way the Lord of Heaven and Earth loaths your Worships your Singing and the Noise of your Organs doth the Lord abhor and instead of your instrument of musick will the lord make you howl and lament bitterly in so much that the Earth shall be astonished and your Downfal shall be so great that Nations shall fear and tremble before our God your Communion and Union is with Devils and unclean Spirits and not with the powerful God which creats a new Heaven and a new Earth and this shall you see fulfilled in its time and season for the Lord hath determined your utter Destruction both Pope and Bishops both root and branch from off the face of the Earth Oh it hastens it hastens and Wrath will not stay In this glorious day in which Zion is rayed in beauty bright To stand in her strength against this dark Night Whose Clouds are so many and Skie so dim That Zions Beauty can hardly be seen But the Lord is risen in this his glorious Day To sweep Bishops PrElates and Clouds away Babylons Destruction is very near let all the World fear for evermore A few Words unto the Royal Seed which is chosen of God and seperated from the World to do his Will for ever OH Friends blessed are you of the immortal God who are centred in the City of refuge which is made without hands which indeed is the lot and inheritance of the unspotted Lambs whose Hearts are after nothing but the Glory of God which is the Crown and Cause of rejoycing of his Sons and Daughters who do inhabit in and about this City who are come to the Church of the First-born and to the innumerable company of Angels and to the SpIrits of just men made perfect Oh! my beloved Ones your Life is above this City and denies the Vanity of it and it loaths the Worship that abounds in it Oh! it is well with you for the Lord hath made you up as his Jewels and Pillars in his House for ever Oh! my Friends who do inhabit in and about this City who are convinced of the Abominations and Uncleanness that is committed in her I am moved of the dreadful and terrible God to warn you that you do not joyn with her Spirit neither in word nor thought for assuredly the day of her pain and sorrow is at hand in the which she shall weep bitterly and

breath sacrifice our Sighs Tears and Groans Prayers and Fastings upon God's holy Altar that a sweet Savour may ascend into the Nostrels of the Most High God that so we may receive a Blessing from Heaven for evermore And this the Lord hath put into my Heart and I cannot forbear but Write that if any prayeth or speaketh unless in the holy Power of the dreadful God amongst us it is as water spilt upon the ground and it will bring a Curse rather than a Blessing the Lord looketh for a holy and clean Sacrifice from us above all the People in the World because he hath raised up his own Life in us and chosen us to be his People and the Lot of his Inheritance and the Place where his Honour dwelleth is with us and I know Sacrifices have been offered by us and is to this day which the Lord's Soul loves and He doth delight to make us his choice He is our God and we have none in Heaven nor in Earth to plead our Cause but He that Suffered and layd down his Life on Earth but now sits in Majesty and Glory in the highest Heavens who is our chief leader and guide and doth lead us into his Power to meet together and to stand in awe and Sin not and if Friends we should not meet together we should Sin against God and should miss of his Presence who hath said Where two or three are met together in my Name there will I be saith the Lord and this is my Testimony as a Witness to this thing I never went to any Meeting since I knew the Truth even from the first Meeting to this day but I was filled with the Living Power of the Lord Oh! the sweet showers that doth descend from the presence of the Lord and the pleasant rains that falleth from his Throne like silver drops it doth distil upon our Hearts whilst we are in our Meetings in the Name and Power of Jesus who is amongst us and hath raised us and is raising us from the Dead and hath and is quickning our mortal Bodies that they may be like unto his glorious Body he hath and doth turn us from Darkness to Light from Satans Power to his own Oh! can we forget or refuse such glorious Benefits which we have received from the God of our Life in our Meetings together I know my Friends you are not unsensible of this great gain by losing the Love of the World to meet together with the King of Heaven and Earth whose presence is better than Life Oh! how hath he opened the Sluce of Everlasting Mercies and Love that it hath poured down from the crown of our head to the soal of our foot so that we have been washed throughout by the endless Goodness of the Lord in our Meetings And this is my mind and I hope you are and will be of the same with me and I do believe the Lord will carry me on to the end I had rather die the cruellest Death that ever was or can be devised by man than to neglect or abstain from Meeting together in his Name for I know who ever doth it neglects their own Salvation and the day of their Visitation Oh my beloved Friends if we Suffer Imprisonment or loss of Life upon the account of meeting together let us rejoyce for it is for Christ sake that we are Persecuted for great is our reward in Heaven Oh! Christ is our meat and drink he is become our Table in the midst of our Persecutors our Cup doth overflow when we are in close Prisons Christ is with us who cannot be exposed from us by the Wrath of Wicked men when we are brought out of Prison and had before the Rulers then Christ goeth along with us and teacheth us what to say He is a Mouth and Wisdom and Utterance we take no care what to do when we are sent back again to Prison from the Rulers if it be into a nasty Hole or Dungeon our Saviour goeth with us and he teacheth us Patience and Meekness and poureth upon our Head and Hearts his holy Oyle which maketh us sing for joy of heart that he hath counted us worthy to Suffer for his name So my Friends if they fight against us they fight against God for God is with us and it is his Cause we stand for and Suffer in Goods Body and Spirit And therefore seeing it is so weighty a thing that we lye at stake for we value not what Men or Devils Spirits or Angels can do unto us for our Hearts and Spirits are firmly fixed upon the Lord and his Cause and for Meeting together as long as we are moved of the Lord the which will be I hope as long as we have breath Oh all you my Friends who are young and tender and all you who are looking abroad to see what will become of us and cannot joyn with us because of Persecution have a care I warn you in the Presence of the dreadful God stand not in that slippery place least the day of Mercy pass over whilst you stand gazing and Repentance be hid from your Eyes then would you give the whole World if you had it for one hour to repent it but then it will be too late Therefore I beseech you not to look at us but to mind your own Salvation and what the Lord saith unto you by his witness in you for every one in the day of God's account shall answer for himself and receive a reward according to their Works the Lord is no respecter of Persons the King as well as the Beggar shall know the stroak of God's hand when the Book of Conscience is opened wherein their Sins are written as with the point of a Diamond and I know that there is nothing can blot them out but the blood of the Lamb and therefore do we utterly deny and abhor any Pardons from the Bishops for I know they cannot pardon themselves nor keep their own Soul alive our confidence is in God who hath tryed our Reins and searched our Hearts by his living Power Glory everlastingly be given unto the higher Power to whom our Souls are subject and in whom we live and shall do world without end Oh Zions King thy Beauty bright Hath fill'd our Hearts with great delight Thy City pure our Eye doth see In which alone dwells Purity Oh! rejoyce ye Saints of Zion all For God hath sav'd you from the Fall It 's no matter if our Bodies dye Our Souls shall live Eternally With God who ruleth in the Heavens High A City pure God hath prepar'd for us When our Enemies hath laid us in the Dust Thy Day and Beauty doth declare An open war with Sin and Sinner Who doth thy Name defame O Lord unto thy Glorious name all knees shall bow Of things in Heaven and things below Thy Seed Royal that Glorious plant Which thou into the World hath sent A Light is content with Punishment From Sinners Hands who like Iron Bands Against thy own Seed stands Their Hearts is bent with full consent thy seed to rent O Lord thy Seed to Heaven doth cry for Delivery In this Day of Perplexity Thou righteous Judge thy suffering Lambs in Prisons lie Until they die for thy Testimony Which shall remain when all is slain Which doth increase our Joy and Peace Oh! blessed be the day our Sins were washt away And we set free to follow thee From the Gulf of Misery who art a God of Purity O Lord we will serve thee whilst we have breath For thou art Judge of Heaven and Earth Honour and Glory is thine alone And be it rendered to thee for evermore FINIS