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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66861	The rock of ages known, and foundation of many generations discovered after this long and dark night of apostacy, which shall never cover us again, because of the anointing, and though darkness may cover the nation, and gross darkness the people a little season, yet the Lord shall be unto his people and everlasting light, and their God their glory : also a prayer that the Lords people may be preserved to the end : also a few words to the King, and his council from the everlasting counsellor and Prince of Peace : also the Lords testimony against all persecutors of the innocent lambs of Christ, in whose light the nations of them that are saved must walk, and against all forms of worship whatsoever, taught by the precepts and commandments of men, which themselves are not led and guided by the spirit of the Lord : also a few words in answer to the last book of common-prayer / this is written in the fear of the Lord, and in the counsel of the everlasting counsellor, whose name is the Lord of Hosts, in Humphry Wolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3298; ESTC R15328	12,166	18

THE Rock of Ages known AND FOUNDATION Of many Generations discovered After this long and dark Night of Apostacy which shall never cover us again because of the Anointing And though Darkness may cover the Nation and gross Darkness the People a little season yet the Lord shall be unto his People an Everlasting Light and their God their Glory Also a Prayer that the Lords People may be preserved to the end Also a few Words to the KING and his Council from the Everlasting Counsellor and Prince of Peace Also the Lords Testimony against all Persecutors of the Innocent Lambs of Christ in whose Light the Nations of them that are saved must walk And against all Forms of Worship whatsoever taught by the Precepts and Commandments of men which themselves are not led and guided by the Spirit of the Lord. Also a few Words in Answer to the last Book of Common-Prayer Psal 53.4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who cat up my People as bread Vers 6. When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his People Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad This is written in the Fear of the Lord and in the Counsel of the Everlasting Counsellor whose Name is the Lord of Hosts In HUMPHRY WOLRICH London Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins Le Grand 1661. The Rock of Ages Known and Foundation of many Generations Discovered after this long and dark night of Apostacy which shall never cover us again because of the Anointing c. IN Patience Meekness and Quietness do we suffer in Joy and Peace and in the everlasting Love of the Lord Jesus do we lie down and rest in him notwithstanding all the rage of the wicked and their many wayes of cruelty towards us yet in all this do we in patience passesse our souls and a hiding place we feel in him who is the Lord our Righteousness in him onely do we trust and hope and of our hope shall we never be ashamed we know for in us we feel it as an Anchor to our souls in this stormy day that is rising as a mighty Tempest to sever the Chaff from the Wheat that the finest of the Wheat may be eaten and the Honey out of the Rock O Lord what shall become of London O London with thy Magistrates and Rulers why should ye be called a persecuting people after all your Fighting and Engagements for Liberty of Conscience to serve the Lord as moved by his Pure Eternal Spirit and after the Tradition and Precepts of men no longer O London Repent go not on in this cruel way of persecuting an innocent people return to the Lord lest thou be hardned as Pharaoh was to his own destruction O why should ye be called a Bloody City Why should ye be reckoned with the Persecutors in Queen Maries dayes in the Generations to come why should ye be ranked with Jerusalem and her Rulers out of which a Prophet could not perish O London I pitty Thee I pitty Thee great is the misery that upon thee and thy Rulers is coming thy day is dark and gloomy that is dawned and come up to cover thee as a Garment O London Do not go on to thy own ruine the people whom thou fightest against are blessed of the Lord that made Heaven and Earth the Lord is their Strength and their Shield and when he hath humbled them and brought them low in Spirit and purified them made them more pure in heart more perfect through sufferings then will he arise for their Salvation yea he will arise the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it it is good that we trust in the Lord even in the Name of the Lord all the day long he that stood by us and in us and hath delivered us out of many Tryals and divers Tribulations good is it for us to trust in him to the end of our Pilgrimage for we are strangers to them that persecute us and they that hate us without a cause know not our dwelling plac● O England with thy Rulers why should ye be as Cain Vagrants in the Earth Why should ye be droven out from the Presence of the Lord into the Land of Nod Why wilt thou lay a burthen on thy own Conscience and gather Vexation and Anguish on thy own soul The way ye take will not destroy us the greater our burthens are the more will the Palm Tree grow and the Root shall spread it sell abundantly and the Branches shall break forth as a Morning without Clouds in due season in his own time that is our Root and bears up our heads under all our sufferings that we undergoe for his own Names sake in Patience we bear giving our Backs to the Smiter and our Cheek to them that pull off the Hair because of the Testimony to the Truth which we bear and the VVord of his Patience which we keep Therefore in this day of darkness doth the Light shine forth and in this time of temptation are we kept preserved who have believed in the Light Christ Jesus and whose hearts are fixed trusting in the Lord they are not afraid of evil tidings nor of sudden destruction when it cometh O let the House of Aaron trust in the Lord He is their Hope and their Shield O let all that know Him trust in Him at all times and fear the Lord and his Goodness for evermore him that hath withdrawn the Face of his Covering and caused the Light of his Countenance to shine forth in our Tabernacles He is unto his that which Eye cannot see nor Tongue expresse and for declaring it but for the sakes of others it is no matter if hand should be still alwayes and Tongue dumb for evermore so that the Peace and Love of the everlasting God and Father of all consolation be but possessed felt and enjoyned in the Heart and in the Soul It is pure Liberty to the Captive and that my Soul doth feel and witness it is bread of life to the hungry and water of life to the thirsty soul it warmes and refreshes in the coldest night that ever came it doth strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees it makes the desolate to rejoyce and break forth into singing and the womb that hath been barren a joyful mother of many children what shall I say to all that fear the Lord be where ye will he is company and in the middest of wars famine and want he is peac● life and fulness of every good thing And though I am but of yesterday in companion yet I set to my seal that the God of the despised Quakers is the living and the true God and their Worship which is in Spirit and Truth is only acceptable to the Lord And further for the Lord in this day of darkness that over thee O England is coming and thou layest it not to thy heart I say in the Light of the eternal God of Heaven and Earth that plucks up Nations and plants

them again I bear my Testimony and it is the Lords Testimony against all Forms of Worship Forms of Prayer and Confessions of Sins that are out of the life and power of Godliness being only taught by the precepts of men and not led thereunto by the pure eternal Spirit of the Lord I do witness against it all as a vain Worship and in the sight of the pure holy God abomination O England in vain dost thou worship thy fear towards me saith the Lord is taught by the precepts of men and yet thou layest it not to thy heart O England what hast thou been fighting plotting and swearing so many years for a Reformation dost thou not yet consider wilt thou yet be so blind as not to see that the Kingdom of Christ will not be set up with carnal weapons O turn ye turn ye to the Spirit of the Lord that by your fighting swearing and destroying one another hath been grieved O that will show you what ye are doing against the Lambs of Christ which saith Swear not at all Love your Enemies Pray for them that persecute and despitefully use you that ye may be like your heavenly Father O King and Parliament Council let all your Wise men of understanding consult this matter Was this the Lords way with you when he brought you in to the Government was it not in peace did not his love and strange acts towards thee O King almost perswade thee there should be no persecution in thy Dominions Why art thou drawn aside against the Lords Heritage that can neirher plot fight nor swear either for or against any one O consider thine own Promise Newgate in London hath above two hundred Prisoners that have lived hitherto peaceably men with their wives and little children in stinking holes by vertue of a late Proclamation set forth in thy Name to the wasting and ruine of many Families which will lie as a burden upon thee if thou lay it not to heart All this is done against the Lords People even against a People whom he hath blessed in this Generation and chosen for his peculiar Treasure in whom he delights to walk and dwell and all that rise up against them wil he rebuke for their sakes as he rebuked Kings in the dayes of old saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm for them hath he chosen for a Peculiar People and a Royal Priesthood and People in whom he will be glorified O the eternal love of our heavenly Father O the ancient Hils the Hill of the Lord which is everlasting is known again to be what all the holy men and Prophets declared it to be O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderful works to the children of men Who is a God like unto our God or a Rock save the Lord Happy are the People that have the God of Jacob for their shield who hides them in the hollow of his hand that fear him and carries them in his everlasting arms of love so that their strength is renewed daily and in their many tribulations they faint not for in our hearts hath the pure eternal God shined forth and the Creator of the ends of the Earth hath made known himself unto us so doth his love shed it self in our hearts constraining us willingly to suffer the losse of any thing that in this world hath been dear unto us so that Christ his love life and vertue may be but enjoyed the losse of all is counted gain ruling in our hearts we in him and he in us our Lord and our God putting down all Rule and Authority and subjecting every high thought which in us hath ruled and lorded over the Heritage of God binding his Fole to the Vine and his young Colt to the choice Vine This is our Victory over the World which our Faith in the Power gives us continually In this do we rejoyce and glory over the Persecuter within and without and as for our Cause our righteous Cause which is the Lords and our Design which is no other but that his Truth may prosper the Lord and his glory exalted in our hearts teaching us to worship as we ought as he hath promised in the latter day he vvill do And as for us let him do with his own what he pleaseth he hath bought us with a price To the false Worship of the Nation we cannot bow at all though the Furnace should be heated seven fold hotter than it is and vve suffer as Plotters and unjustly numbred with Murderers yet vve know me are clear as new-born children and many of our enemies know it also and have nothing to lay to our charge but in the matter of our God and his Worship and ere long it will appear it is because we cannot bow to Baal nor kisse him in drinking the Whores Cup of Fornication which is now handing out again to this Nation by the Merchants of Babylon whose day of wailing and bitter lamentation is nigh even at the door and as for us let the Lord suffer them if his will be so to make merchandise of out bodies as they have begun already yet our souls are the Lords and by his righteous power which we have put on he is able to keep us from falling or entering into any of the many temptations and snares that are laid for the Innocent And as we stand with our confidence in the Lord our Righteousness and of his Righteousness only to make mention our Faith in the power of an endless life our hearts shall not reproach us so long as we have a beeing and our Sufferings are for Righteousness sake because we cannot turn Idolaters in setting up Dayes and observing Times that the Lord did never command but worship him as led and moved by his eternal Spirit And we know the Letter doth not move at all much lesse doth it move any to confess Sin as in the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book is said that is the Swearers Liars and Persecuters prayer which to the Lord is an abomination we cannot own for his sake neither do we confess our sins as taught of men for this is hypocrisie but as the holy Spirit that gives us power to forsake them teacheth us O Friends ye are all out of the way that think God will be served or worshipped acceptably any other way but as led and guided by his holy Spirit O what are ye doing will ye limit the Lord in his People this hath been the overthrow of many Governments O consider will ye limit the Holy One of Israel to a few dead words in a Book or a dead Confession taught by dead man whilst in his sins What do ye think the great God dwelleth in a dead Temple made with hands and dead stones Is this the Church of the First-born which Church is in God whose names are written in Heaven O ye Bishops and learned men will ye indeed be lords of our Faith How can this be

to take to fill prisons holes and dungeons with such as were Hereticks indeed and to be cast out and rejected did he bid them banish imprison and whip them Now thus do you serve your friends which tell you the Truth and such which cannot observe dayes for his sake that hath commanded saying six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do Therefore consider your wayes and turn to the Lord for he is jealous and a God that will not be mocked with words This Way ye take may make many Hypocrites and seeming friends and they may bind themselves with Oaths and Protestations and yet in their hearts wait an opportunity to break all again But by all your Jayles spoiling of ' our goods and bodies in stinking Prisons two hundred and fifty together having scarce room to lie one by another I say this by all these things you may make your selves manifest as ye do to be persecutors of the innocent Lambs of Christ but never shall ye convert enemies nor turn one to the Lord by these things England shall see that saying fulfilled The blood of the Martyrs the seed of the Church And as for our Religion it came not up after this manner namely by the change of a King a Parliament Protector but through all these changes that have been it hath stood the same and we the same in it and to none of their commands in the matters of our God and his worship could we submit but chose rather to suffer patiently by them all and our persecutors are fallen and we yet stand and our confidence is the same as it ever was not in the Arm of flesh or weapons of War but in the name of the Lord of hosts that made Heaven and Earth doth our hope stand the Sea is his also and his hands prepare the dry Land but as for the wicked they shall deal yet more wickedly and they that hate us without a cause will become our cruel Enemies that the Faithful may be made manifest whose love is to the Lord and such as are Hypocrites fearfulness may take hold on them And now to your own Book return a little and consider it First ye teach the Priest what he shall say which is utterly contrary to the Scriptures and Command of Christ therein which saith Take no thought what ye shall speak before hand for it is not you but the Spirit of the Father that speaketh in you he doth the work and also contrary to their Practice who waited at Jerusalem for the Spirit and as that gave them utterance they spake And it is better as Paul faith to speak five words with the Spirit and understanding then ten thousand in an unknown tongue And it doth not profit at all to read or hear read Prayers Praises or Confessions of sin taught by the Traditions and Commandments of men whilst the tongue of the Learned is not known to speak a seasonable word to the weary and also to the wicked And also the people which ye teach to say after him consider in what a sad state their Souls are in towards the Lord whose Holy Name ye teach them to pollute with their unclean lips whilst they are filled with iniquity and unconverted Is he the Lord their God ruling in their hearts And whether they that live in persecution pride covetousness and all manner of vanity which the Lord hates whether these be his people and the sheep of his pasture as in your Common Prayer is taught to all manner of wicked persons altogether unlike David or the sheep of Gods Pasture which for his Names sake were killed all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter Let them that fear the Lord judge in these things whether the despised Quakers be not the People whom ye are persecuting without a cause filling your Prisons holes and dungeons withall O let the Lord look down on our unjust sufferings in whose sight we are clear as Children newly born into this world from all manner of plotting or inventing either in thought word or deed against the King this present government or any other since we were a People called and chosen of the Lord to bear our testimony against the persecution oppression and cruelty in them all thus are we rewarded evil for good to the spoiling of our Souls and accounted your Enemies also because of these things And now what and if the just and Righteous God should turn your own words upon your own heads again and say be it to you as in your morning Prayer you have said for his Elect sake which cryes day and night and for Jerusalems sake which gives him no rest until he make her a praise in the midst of the Earth O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou wilt be a burdensome stone to this generation of persecutors If I forget thee then shall my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth I say what if the Lord give you the answer of your own Prayers which you say and teach others These are the words first spoken by the Prophet in the integrity of his heart and the same good words have ye stole and speak them again whilst in your heart lodgeth persecution O Lord my God mark and be moderate and consider your own words if I have done any such thing or if there be wickedness in my hands If I have rewarded evil to him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is my Enemy then let my Enemy persecute my Soul and take me let him tread my life upon the ground and lay my honour in the dust Now must ye either condemn Davids words and the Common Prayer Book also or else deny persecution and leave it else your own words will be fulfilled upon yon and in your selves Behold he travelleth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodliness he hath graven and digged a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others but the Lord hath prepared for him the Instruments of death he hath ordained his arrowes against the persecutors and as for us which suffer and are persecuted for Righteousness sake our help cometh from the Lord our God and though the Lord suffer you to plow long and deep surrows on our backs for the tryal of our precious Faith yet when he hath searched our very hearts and tryed our reins then shall we be made more pure as Gold that is tryed in the fire is add that saying fulfilled The Lord delivereth the Righteous and preserveth them that are true of heart then shall the Righteous be delivered out of all temptations For the Lord knoweth how to deliver the Righteous out of them all and to reserve the Wicked to a day of Judgment to be punished the righteous Lord knoweth how to do all this in his season O the pure endless infinite love of our Father that bears