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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

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

and Crown and Beauty shall never have an end but thou shalt be the Glory of the whole Earth and the Beauty of all Nations and Kings shall come to thy rising and Princes to the brightness of thy Glory there is no City upon the Earth can say as thou canst in this latter day for the Power of the Lord hath been shed abroad in thee and thou hast been visited more than any therefore prize the Son of the Lord least thou art cast into utter Darkness for it is I the Lord that chaineth Leviathan which no man can tame who am God and there is none besides me by my Wisdom the World was made and the Heavens framed I created the Sea and caused the Rivers to run into it and have set the Sands as swadling bands that it cannot over-pass and this is my decree which I will have sealed unto my people I am the Quakers God and will be with them unto the end of this World and in the end they shall be with me in my Glorious Kingdome where they shall be kept from their Persecutors and lye down in joy peace and tranquility with the rest of my holy Martyrs and Prophets and Apostles in years past and I am utterly against all that do oppose them who am a terrible God and will bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end but the righteousness of the righteous doth live with me This is my Decree and it shall live for ever and remain World without end and if thou canst cause the rain from raining or the Stars from shining or the Sun from going her Course or giving light to the Nations then mayest thou alter my Decree with my People whose seed shall be for number as the sand upon the Sea shore and for Multitude as the Stars of Heaven and they shall shine in Glory more brighter than the Sun at noon day in the Firmament of my Power when the generation of the wicked shall be cast into the Lake which is prepared of God for the King of darkness and his Subjects The Trumpet of the Lord sounded forth unto England Scotland and Ireland with a Word of wholsome Advice and Counsel to the King Rulers and Judges thereof OH King this is my Counsel unto thee and thy Rulers and Judges Oh! hearken unto the Light of Christ in your Consciences that it may bear rule in your hearts that you may Judge for the Lord and oppression may be expel'd in your Dominions Oh! that you would do Justice and love Mercy and walk humbly with the God of heaven then would the Lord give you length Of dayes and a long life Peace and Plenty shall be in your Dominions every one shall sit under his own Vine and Fig-tree and none shall make them afraid joy and tranquillity shall be in your Palaces this shall you see and know to be accomplished if you will leave off oppressing the Righteous and set the Captive free Oh ye Rulers Judges and Justices and all People high and low be it known unto you from the mighty Judge of Powerful Majesty that he is risen who will scatter Rulers in his anger and will pluck down Kings in his wroth Oh! the anger of the Lord waxeth hot against all workers of iniquity and he will set his oppressed seed free which cryeth unto him for deliverance and know this what cruelty soever be in your hearts against us the Lord will confound it and bring it to nothing for the Lord is on our sides and we fear not Imprisonment Banishment Fine or Tortures or whatever the wrath of man can inflict upon us for our hearts are firmly fixed upon the Lord and we are freely given up in Body Soul and Spirit to suffer for God's Cause Oh you Rulers if the Lord suffereth you to Banish us I know that the Lord will go along with us as he did with Abraham in a strange Land but know this we shall leave a seed behind us which shall be your tormentor and shall witness for us when we are gone Oh Lord I commit our case unto thee who art faithful and keepeth Covenant for ever and I know thou wilt fight our Battel and plead our cause with the mighty on earth who would destroy us from being a People if thy Power did not preserve us Glory and Honour be given unto thee who hath compassed us about with songs of everlasting praises and we may blesse the hour and time that thou raised up a People in the North even a dreadful and terrible Army who Marched swiftly in thy Power through the Nations and by them we were convinced and turned towards the Lord and they shall be the dread of all Nations and God hath crowned them with an everlasting Crown which neither Men nor Devils shall be able to take from them Oh you Rulers and Judges of these Nations do you think to overcome us or make us yeeld by keeping them in Prison which you think are our Teachers and Ring-leaders nay Christ is our Teacher and he cannot be removed into a corner who is the Antient of Dayes and will cause us to increase dayly and to grow as Calves in the stall we are not like the World who must have a Priest to Interpret the Scriptures to them and when he is removed they are scattered and knows not what to do but my friends we witness the Scriptures fulfil'd who hath said in the latter dayes He would pour out his Spirit upon Sons and Daughters and they should Prophesie and they shall all be taught of me and great shall be their peace and in righteousness shall they be established So the Lord doth not speak unto us in an unknown Tongue but in our own Language do we hear him perfectly whose voice is better than life and for this cause doth the unlearned hate us and the uncircumcised revile us because we cannot own the Teaching that is of this World but that which cometh immediately from God and that is pure and refresheth the Soul and holdeth up the head in the day of Battel and it causeth us to meet together to worship the Lord as we ought to do and Oh you Rulers and People it is in vain for you to strive against us for the God of heaven is with us Oh England Scotland and Ireland but more especially thou O England that art the most fruitful and famous Land in which the Lord hath been pleased to make manifest his Life and Power Beauty and Glory more than in any Nation under the Heavens in so much that he hath raised his sons and daughters from death to life and hath made them bold and valiant Souldiers for his Testimony which he hath given them to bear forth unto all Nations and by the Glorious and Powerful Word of Life which hath proceeded out of their mouthes hath thy Judges and Rulers been convinced of the evil of their way and have been made to confesse to the Truth both Priests and People both High

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

shall make all astonished who are from the Power and Life of God Oh my Friends keep to the Power and to the Judgements of the just Judge that that eye and thought that would look out at her Glory and that would think to sit at ease in her Borders let that be judged and accursed for ever that would have any Life below the Son of God Oh my Friends call to mind the years past how pretious and fresh was the Love of the Lord in your hearts when he first visited you in this City Oh! did you think any thing to dear for him could you not have laid down your Lives for his Truth were you not glad when you were robbed of your Glory and bereaved of your choicest Jewels even for the Lords sake Oh my Friends I can bear you record in the sight of God who was a fellow feeler of your Integrity and Faithfulness unto the Lamb. Oh! you tender Ones with whom my Soul hath Union keep to that pure and undefiled Love even to the measure of God's Grace that it may teach you continually to deny all things that is of this World and unclean in this City that you may stand every one in your measures as Lights in this dark City for the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth hath placed you in and about this City as he hath done the Sun Moon and Stars and there you in the Firmament are to stand fixed in him who is the glorious morning Star you must not wander least you cease to give Light in the place where you are set for remember they that wandered were reserved in Chaines of Darkness until the Judgement of the great Day which is near at hand to give unto every one a just reward Oh! you beloved Friends of God this I have to say unto you from the mighty God although you are set as marks for the mighty men to shoot at and as a by-word in the mouth of the Beggars and are reckoned the worst of all People not worthy to live upon the Earth yet know this that the Covenant of the Lord is made with you and his Power and Life shall not depart from you nor from your Seed for evermore Glory Praises and Power eternally be rendered unto the Lord who reigneth in the Heavens who never altereth but liveth a God for ever Oh my Friends this is the earnest desire of my Soul that we may keep close unto our Maker even to bear a pure holy and faithful Testimony in our Generation against all that do oppose the Lamb in this City as the Prophets and Apostles and holy Martyrs have done in their day against all false Gods Worships and Worshippers we have the same Spirit to fight against in this City as they had in the World before Therefore my Companions and fellow Sufferers have we not need to stand up for God's Cause for the which we have and are called to bear forth our Testimony in so deep Sufferings as we have come through and if we are to drink of a deeper Cup yet let us be thankful unto the Lord of the Harvest for it is for the gathering of the Exiles into Abraham's bosome and the poor thirsty Soules unto the place of broad Rivers Oh! rejoyce and give Praises unto God on high who hath begun his Work and will finish it in his time Oh my Friends let us keep clear of this City let us not tast nor handle any of her Works for her works are Vanity and falshood the Poyson of Aspes is under her tongue and Deceit is in her hands therefore it is good that we bear a faithful Testimony for the most high against this Generation and if our lot be to die and we appointed to be Slain for the same it will be well with us our Souls shall be received into the bosome of the Father where we shall glorifie God day and night and shall be free from Oppression Oh dear Hearts be not afraid of the threatnings or proud looks of vain Man which is but like a bubble he can but kill the Body but cannot kill the Soul Oh! be continually prepared to die that none may be afraid of Death when it comes for it may come suddenly when ye are asleep or in the twinckling of an Eye Oh! that then the rest which God hath prepared for his People may be entred into or else Misery and Pain will be found which is the Reward of the Slothful and Disobedient the Way of the Righteous is Life Eternal and the Path of the Just is a burning and a shining Light which our Eyes have seen and our hands have handled of the Word of Life by which we have been preserved unto this day and I am certain if thousands of thousands should rise up against us they shall not prevail for the Lord the mighty Jehovah is with us and will fight our Battel and plead our Cause with the mighty Ones of the Earth we need do nothing but stand still in Gods Salvation which is the saving health of all Nations and will plead with all Tongues and Kindreds of the Earth who do oppose Him And his Lambs and Babes who walketh in his holy Path which is Life to the upright in heart Oh! the Wisdom Power and Glory of the unlimitted God what tongue is able to declare it or what heart can conceal the infiniteness of the Riches of the Judge of Heaven and Earth it even fills the Heart with Love and Life and over-shadows the Soul and Mind with the Glory and Beauty of the unspotted Lamb which taketh away the Sins of the World Oh! the weight of his Glory I am even swallowed up with the incomprehensibleness of it Oh! the height and the depth of it is past finding out by the Wisdom of this World Oh my Friends is not that God amongst us who created Adam in Innocency and Eve of the Dust of the Earth did not he cause Abraham to leave the Land of his Nativity and go into a strange Land and did he not compass him about with Strength and Power and gave him Favour in the sight of the People and is he not the same God still Yes although the Earth may wax old and Heavens vanish away as smoak and the Elements with fervent heat yet he remains unchangeable who is our head Oh! What is all the World before him who is Judge of Judges and King of Kings it's but as the drop of a bucket in his sight and a thousaud Years is but as one day with our God Therefore it is expedient for all Friends to watch and wait and Pray least they enter into Temptation And this have I seen my beloved Friends this night as from the Lord that there must be a watching and waiting for the Invisible Power of the Lamb to arise to move to pray to speak and then it will be a pure and a holy Sacrifice which the Lord will accept Oh my Friends let us whilst we have