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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

durable neither will thy Faith remain it is as the raging Sea whose waves are up and down and thou art tossed in thy mind as a Ship upon the Sea driven with a mighty wind thy hope is in man and it faileth thy joy is dying and will die away O! therefore put thy trust in the living God and not in man whose breath is in his nostrils that thou mayest be saved from the day of wrath which will suddenly come upon the families of the earth All Nations shall partake of his wrath and all Tongues of his fury for all flesh hath corrupted its way before the Lord all flesh hath sinned and come short of the glory of God so all flesh must know the wrath of God executed upon the wicked for the Lord hath determined a Consumption to come upon the whole earth therefore O earth earth hear the Word of the Lord and be thou separated from your uncleanness and live before the Lord that all the dayes of thy appointed time thou mayest wait till the change comes for nothing but life will stand before the Lord who is immortal And know this of a truth that this is written in pure love to thy soul O London the righteous is oppressed in thee and the innocent cryeth in thy streets by reason of oppression O! feed the hungry and cloath the naked and hide not thy self from thy own flesh for you are all made of one blood and one mould upon the face of the whole earth He that saith he loves God and doth not feed the hungry and cloath the naked and judge the cause of the poor and needy he is a lyar and doth not the truth And know this ye Judges and Rulers and Magistrates that there is a Judge above you which will call you to an account and will judge you out of the book of Conscience and give you a full reward and you shall all know in the day when the Lord rips off all coverings and takes peace from the earth that there is a Deliverer in Sion which will deliver his righteous seed and none shall hinder and although we are despised in thee and hated by thee yet the Lord who is the everlasting Councellor and Prince of Peace he is our Redeemer who is the portion of our cup and the lot of our inheritance we have none in heaven but him nor upon earth that can deliver but he he wil plead our cause with them that hate us and our innocency shall appear as the Sun in her ful strength we shall be as a morning without clouds when the Lord shall arise and take the honor to himself and exalt his Kingdome above the heavens and his Dominion above the stars then shall Jerusalem be the praise of the whole earth and they shall rejoyce in her who now mourneth and say one to another Come let us stand upon Mount Sion and sit down upon the holyhill for our God and his Christ reigneth over all the whole earth O! this is a blessed estate which the ●ighteous doth inherit but as for the wicked they are as stubble throughly dried and the Word of the Lord is as a fire and they must be burned up and be shut without the gates of the City where the Lamb treads the Wine-press of Gods wrath So in the fear of the Lord repent and amend thy life least God sweep thee away into the pit of utter destruction out of which there is no redemption Oh London the Lord God of Heaven and of Earth he is burdened with thy vain Religion who maketh a profession of God and of Christ and yet liveth in lust and vanity pride and vain-glory in swearing and curfing and yet is covered with a covering which the Lord will take away O how doth gluttony abound in thee rioting and sporting in the day time thou knowst not how almost to go along the streets thou art so proud and haughty and the poor in thee are ready to famish for whose estate and condition my heart is pained within me old and young blind and lame lieth in thy streets and at thy Masse-houses doors crying for bread who are almost naked for want of cloathing and fainting for want of bread and yet thou canst passe by them in thy gaudy apparrel and our-stretched neck with thy face decked with black spots which are the marks of the Whore the Beast and the False Prophet which is not the attire of Sarah Abrahams wife Thou knowest not what to eat nor what to drink nor wherewith to be cloathed thy mind is so vain and thy Religion is so aiery and if any of these that are blind or lame or destitute of a being asketh of thee a penny or farthing thou sayest thou hast it not for them O! remember the Lord will call thee to an account and truly a sad day it will be for thee when he shall take thy peace away who hath lavishly spent Gods Creation upon thy lusts and hath not distributed thy morsel to the poor and to the needy the light of Christ in thy Conscience condemns thee for thy not so doing and from that thou canst not fly that shall be thy condemnation for ever if thou hatest it and thy salvation for ever if thou lovest it O! tremble and quake before the Lord ye sons of Sodom and Daughters of Gomorrah who doth inhabit this mortal City which doth-corrupt and will die away your glory the Lord will bring to nothing therefore keep to the light which condemns you that an entrance into the immortal Kingdome you may find Woe be unto all thy Usurers who hoardeth up the unrighteous mammon and doth not lend to the poor and distressed and saith they have it not for them the rust of their money in the Day of Judgement shall rise up against them and Gods swift Witness in their own hearts shall condemn them which lives for ever therefore all ye Usurers Soothsayers and Star-gazers that inhabiteth this place and elsewhere repent for Gods plagues and Judgements is to be executed upon you and upon all that lendeth an ear unto you you Star-gazers and Astrologers who can discern the face of the Sky but doth not know the signs of the coming of the Son of Man whose glorious appearance will discover your dark works that you act in the dark night and tho night shall passe away and you shall know a day of Judgement and see him whom you have pierced of whom the Sun Moon and Stars bears testimony and keepeth their station with God therefore its good for you to know the Rod of God to instruct you in his path and to lead you to his Kingdome and this is the desire of my soul that you may all inhabit peace and rest with the King of Heaven and Earth So know that your day of visitation is now the Lord doth hold forth unto you mercy and peace therefore imbrace it whilst it is tendred unto you least you be shut out and