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A28251 The warnings of the Lord to the King of England and his Parliament as they were wrote and sent by his servant, George Bishope. Bishop, George, d. 1668. 1667 (1667) Wing B3015; ESTC R5711 12,982 22

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these and so the Blessing of God will be upon thee as thou continuest to do to others as he hath done to thee and increase of kindness and largeness of Love wilt thou receive of him as thou measurest back again unto others unto his People as he hath measured unto thee and so thou remembrest the Lord. And this as I have said will be good for thee to do that it may be well with thee as to the Lord who is able to pull thee down as he hath set thee up and by a fire unblown to consume thee shouldest thou forget the Lord and all his Benefits which he hath shewed unto thee and his large loving-kindness beyond all that have gone before thee Now as to us Behold we are in the hand of the Lord and we feel his Arm and Power with us who will never leave us nor forsake us who put our trust in him and his Presence will be enough for us where-ever he suffers us to be sent or put or however to suffer who is Lord of Heaven and Earth whom we have proved and tried and found so to us all our dayes since we were a People and he hath born us through all hitherto and will do to the end all that abide with him and so we are not in consultation nor is this sent to bespeak any thing from thee besides the Will and Purpose of the Lord whose Will we are come to do and to glorify his Name in the world and to shew that he is with us as we shall be put to it to glorify his Name who hath delivered our Souls from the Pit and our Lives from destruction and hath caused us to hear the Voyce of Joy and Gladness so that the Bones that he hath broken do rejoyce and we rejoyce to do his Will in doing or suffering whatsoever is his Will we should do or suffer without whose sufferance we know nothing can be done unto us and we feel him who is the Rock of Ages who is able yea and will uphold us who trust in him But it is for thy sake I write and in Love to thee and tender Compassion as I am moved of the Lord that thou mayest not do the thing that may make him repent of all his kindness to thee-wards and provoke him to undo thee as he hath made thee up For certainly if thou shalt do this thing and seek to remove and root out and otherwise to suffer such a Body of many thousands of Families in these Nations of us who fear the Lord who are Natural English and have a Natural Right as much as any to reside and be in our Native Country and to enjoy our Liberties and Estates as to the Lord free whom thou foundest here when thou camest in thy Friends and suffering by them who were thy Enemies and who have not been nor are in Thought in Word or in Deed otherwise since thy coming in but desiring the welfare of thy Soul and Body which we do desire and of thy Dominions and are Peaceable in the Land as the Lord is Witness and that of him in thy Conscience this the Lord will take ill at thy hands and he hath moved me to tell thee so and will prove thy Ruine and it is better for thee to have all the World than the Lord thine Enemy and upon such an account as in the behalf of an Innocent People Suffering so by Thee And this we would not have on any hand as to thee may it so stand in the will of God and therefore hath he moved me to write thus unto thee whose pitty is to thee that thou mayest not do that which will cause his hand to be against thee And so in the Bowels of the Lord and even in Tears of Compassion to thy Soul and Body to thy Dominions and People do I write who have my Witness with the Lord and shall have in Thee that I seek thy welfare and that in this thing which will leave thee without Excuse in the Day of the Lord if thou hearken not For which cause even that it may be well with thee it is written in the Movings of the Lord through His Servant and Thy Friend who truly desires the Wellfare of thy Soul and Body in this World and that which is to come George Bishope Bristol the 2d of the 1st Moneth 1661 2 The Original of this was delivered into the Kings Hand by Mary Saunderson aforesaid To the King of England FRIEND THink it not enough for thee or sufficient or that it will excuse thee before the Lord that thou hast not Signed the Bill for the Banishment of his People Thy Self but hast appointed Commissioners for what they have done they did it by Authority of Thee and by thy Commission so what thy Commissioners have done Thou hast done and what Thou hast done thy Commissioners have done and so the Lord God looks upon it and will require it of Thee And now Friend let me a little reason with thee and give the Sufferers leave to speak concerning this matter What have the People called Quakers done unto Thee thy Soul or Body thy Crown or Dignity since they were a People and since thou hast had footing lately in this Nation that thou thus dealest with them What is their Offence what 's their Crime that they should be thus dispoiled of their Natural Right to reside and be in their Native Country and be thus dealt with contrary to Nature Hast thou not proved them and tried them and upon proof and trial hast thou found the least Spot or Iota in them of Rebellion as to Thee of Disaffection of Offence Have not Times tried them Have not Prisons Have not Sufferings Have not great and sor● Sufferings tried them when they so suffered and yet were without Offence as to God and Man Had a Spirit of Rebellion lodged in them a spirit of Revenge or Dissatisfaction as to Thee Alas what could be expected but that as Men who perfectly understand their own Liberty and knew how as Men to engage for it they should rather dye and put all to the hazzard at one Shock to end their Sufferings either on or in the Earth then to be continually Offered up as it were They their Wives Children and Relations Estates and Families to the unlimitted rage and wickedness of Men and to the changableness of Dayes which hath alwayes hung over them after this manner to do with them what they pleased And yet they have a Witness with the Lord and also among Men that had they stood it out as men as they might have done unto which they were courted and that not a little Thou had'st hardly if at all at least with more difficulty have set foot on this Nation but they refused choosing rather to leave the issue to the Lord as to their Liberty which seemed as to men more then probably gon as to what should befall them then to take part with thine Enemies against thee