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A60501 These few lines are to all such as have an hand in persecuting the innocent people of God (called Quakers) for the exercise of their pure conscience towards God, whom Christ Jesus the Light hath redeemed ... Smith, Mary, prisoner at Middlewich. 1667 (1667) Wing S4130; ESTC R220731 4,310 7

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comes to plead the cause of his own suffering seed which hath long groaned under such hard Task-masters who will not let Israel go free to serve the Lord their God according to the Leadings of his own spirit Had it not been better for you you had never h●d been born Will your then saying You had a Law stand you in stead when the judge of all the world comes to plead with you who now condems and reproves you and lets you see you ought not to do it Consider these things all ye that forget God lest he tear you in peices in his wrath and there be none to deliver you For we are as the Apple of his eye the people of his pasture and the sheep of his Flock and mighty is our Deliverer for there is nothing more desired by us then to do his Will and in his heavenly Will do we lye down where none can make afraid Blessed be his Name for ever It hath been much upon my Spirit to clear my self amongst you who have been a Sufferer by you for no other cause then for calling upon the name of the Lord and the clearing of his precious Truth and people that so you might not plead Ignorance in the day of Account for dreadful will the Lord our God be to all his Enemies he will render himself in flames of fire upon the heads of all the workers of Iniquity For this is he who you are contending against before whom all Nations are as the drop of a Bucket and the small dust in the ballances And when the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah arises to plead the cause of his suffering people in the fierceness of his Wrath where will you hide your selves Neither Rocks nor Mountains shall cover you from his dreadful Vengeance when he comes to plead with you for his day shall burn as an Oven and all the wicked and ungodly shall be as stubble before him for all flesh is as grass and the glory of man as a flower which flourisheth to day and to morrow is cut down and withered So I exhort you all not to exalt your selves against your Maker for he is determined to abase all flesh and bring low all the loftiness of man and to make all the tall Cedars of Lebanon to bow before him and all the strong Oaks of Bashan will he cause to fall at his appearance who will not that Christ Jesus the Light of the world the Son of his Love should Reign to whom all power in Heaven and in Earth is given to whom we bear our testimony who is as broad Rivers to our souls in this day Glory be given to his Name for ever and for evermore Written by one who is a Lover of the souls of all people and travels for the Redemption of the imbondaged Seed which lies in spiritual Sodome and Egypt in this day as it did in the dayes of Old Mary Smith From Myddlewych-house of Correction in Cheshire the 10. moneth 1665. Printed in the year 1667. HERE is another Warning which was given forth some years before to the Majestrates and Ministers so called of the City of York and several Copies of it was given into their hands but their hearts were hardened and they rejected Counsel so the Prophesie is fulfilled and the Lord is clear of them and his people hath Peace in him who forsakes them not in the six troubles nor in the seaven Glory to his Name for ever IN vain do you Rulers and Magistrates upon the earth consult and take Counsel together against the Lord and his Christ For I declare from the Spirit of the Lord that there is no Weapon you form against him shall prosper Again I declare to you by the pure moving of the Spirit of the Lord God that made heaven and earth that by that power which we live in whom the world in scorn calls Quakers and are led by to bear our Testimony against this wicked generation By that power I declare again to you from the Lord shall you all be broken to peices like a Potters vessel therefore in the dread and fear of the holy God am I made to warn you in love to all your souls that Repentance may be found amongst you in this day when he requires it of you that your destruction come not suddenly and your Calamity like an armed man then your Maker will not save you nor he that formed you will not pitty you Therefore this is a Visitation from the Lord God to you all about this City of York who are called Aldermen and Justices of the Peace or Ministers Chuse whether you will bear or forbear the Lord is clear of your blood and this shall stand a witness against you for ever Written by one who is a Lover of all your souls whose name is known to you after the flesh to be Mary Smith From Ouse-bridge Prison the 9. day of the 7. moneth 1659. The End