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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89638	A faithful warning, with good advice from Israel's God, to Englands King, and his council that they may wisely improve this little inch of time which the God of their life as yet affords unto them, before the day of their approaching misery come upon them. Which may serve as a caution to all others in authority within the nation. Sounded through one of the mourners in Sion, known by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M927; ESTC R202015	13,569	23

up and manifested in this Generation And never did any people who made so large a Profession of God and Godliness as the Priests and Professors do at this day that ever manifested more Enmity Malice and Opposition against the Innocent for the Hat and Knee Thee and Thou and such like things than these men do at this day Oh wonderful That men who pretend to such a hight of Profession should be so dark so sottish and have so little understanding in the Mysteries of God's Kingdom at this time of the Day when Truth hath gained so much ground in the Nation as all the strength of Antichrist shall not be able to recover one foot thereof from the Lamb and his true Followers in the Warfare against the Beast Oh! I am wounded I am wounded to see the Wickedness of the Wicked to see the Beast and false Prophet boast it self in its own strength and thus triumphingly exalt his Horn against the Heritage of God and vaunt as if he were not to be moved to see the undermining subtilty of the old Serpent seeking the Lives of all the Innocents in these Nations onely because Truth cannot feed Deceit nor put into the Mouth of the false Prophet but reproves sin in the Gate and makes Spiritual War against the Man of Sin because in the living Power and Authority of the Eternal God it reproves Pride Covetousness Lust Wantonness Swearing Revenge and makes war against the Drunkards of Ephraim Because it upholds not the Devil's Kingdom for term of life but preaches up the Hope of Glory the Power of the Living God in his People to be all-sufficient to destroy and put an end to the Divels works this makes the Divels roar and increases the rage of Antichrist and his Adherents against the followers of the Lamb and makes the Brats of Pride gnaw their very tongues for Madness because the Sons of Meekness dare not in awe to God bow to that exalted Spirit or feed the Beast with flattering titles Tell me you that are well read in Histories if ever you found any Pagans or Christians so termed since the foundation of the world that ever persecuted an Innocent people for wearing their upper Garment which God hath given them to be a Covering for their Head and for using the Language which Christ the lip of Truth and all his Lambs ever used one to another yea which all Nations under the Heaven in the Rudiments of Teaching use for a Foundation O that men should be so void of the Fear and Dread of the Living God as to suffer their hearts to be so filled with fury against the harmless Flock who lifts not up a carnal weapon against their enemies What is your meaning to hatch this Mischief against them thus earnestly to feek so subtilly to destroy them What evil Ah! what evil O thou Enemy to the righteous God do'st thou know by his Lambs In the fear of the Lord I challenge thee to declare it to them if thou canst either in Doctrine Life or Conversation How often have thy dreaming Priests attempted to impeach the one and the Serpents eye watched over them for the other And how often have they been foiled and their eies even failed and grown dim and wearied themselves with their watching for our halting How hath the righteous God confounded their wisdom and driven it backward and powred shame and contempt upon them for their portion How many have perished in their foolish expectation of the Fall of the Righteous How often yea how wonderfully hath the Lord stopt the mouths of these greedy dumb dogs who never have enough and silenced both Priest and People Professors and Prosane even by his Babes and Sucklings who are nourisht at the breasts of his consolation and drink at the water of life freely and can now no longer like foolish children dabble in the dirty Pools of the polluted Priests of the Nation nor buy their lying merchandizes any more So that now for want of just matter of accusation against them they are fain to flye to their old Refuge of Lyes subtil Inventions false Accusations to ensnare the Innocent touching the things of their God wherein the Serpent knows they dare not violate the Law of their God in the least or act the Hypocrite's part to save his Head and lose his Soul And therefore they run to their rotten Laws * Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Oath of Abjuration never constituted by God nor approved of by Man who lives in his fear to be a Snare to the honest-hearted And would but you Rulers of this Nation do to these Innocent Ones as you could have all men do to you the persecuting Seed would not for these things harm one Saint But the Will of the righteous God is worthy to be done who in his due time will sweep away the Refuge of Lyes which the Wicked one fathers upon Christ's Flock Hast not thou O ENGLAND in the time of thy late Troubles had large Experience of the Innocency of these People Have they ever had a hand in any Plots or Conspiracies against thy Governors though often falsly accused Let God's Witness arise and it vvill give in true Evidence on the behalf of the Innocent for I bear them record in the Name of the Lord They are a harmless and a peaceable People those called QUAKERS vvho live in the life of Truth professed by them and seeks not the life of any nor desires any harm in their hearts to their very Enemies They cannot confederate nor never could since they came into the life of the Lamb with this or that part against any Government but were ever counted as Sheep for the Slaughter and many of them have deeply suffered for Conscience-sake as is sufficiently known to many thousands in the Nation but more now of late than ever O England England Art thou so drunk with Iniquity so blinded with mad Zeal Art thou grown so fond of Romish Trumperies that thou wilt needs quarrel and fall out with thy surest friends and not be satisfied without the blood of the Innocent I bear them record they are the choicest the very best of thy real Friends and the purest Gold that is current in thy Kingdom Canst thou not bear with the tenderness of their Consciences There is not a people in the Nation I am bold to speak it that would so freely give toleration to tender Consciences as they would do Thou allowest some Grains I well know to thy Gold and why not a little lawful Liberty to a truly tender Conscience Why wilt thou offer to urge an Oath upon them God's Witness in all Consciences knows their yea and nay is as binding unto them as all the Oaths and Bonds of the best of thy Inhabitants beside them And why dost thou O Supream Power imprison or suffer any to be imprisoned or disquieted for working in their Calling upon those called Saints dayes Is this the Toleration thou intendest to allow to tender Consciences O! What 's become of the Word of a King And tell me now O ye men in Authority and all sober-minded people if Passion be down and Preiudice removed What is that O man in thee whatsoever thou art high or low rich or poor that is offended because the honest-hearted bows not with his body to it or stands not bare without his Hat before it Or frets and fumes like a Fool or a Fellow new come out of Bedlam if a man do but speak proper English to him Thee or Thou to a single person Is it the Babe of Humility or the Seed of Pride that is so soon puft up into passion that sometimes to an affectionate kind word it answers discourteously with blows or buffetings Oh England England When wilt thou come into the Humility When will thy Malice cease against the Innocent and thy surious folly finde an end When wilt thou leave persecuting thy own Bowels Not so long as the Beast and false Prophet have Dominion over thee not till the Righteous God awaken thee with his Judgements And verily O England 't is time that thy Governors knew thou ripens fast thou art fattening for Destruction while thou licks up that which formerly thou vomited and canst now conform though with gripings in thy Conscience to Popery and Popish Prelates and persecute the Saints in Prison for not submitting to thy Popish Festivals Oh whither are you wheeling you great Counsellors of the Kingdom O England England wouldst thou not even drink the very dregs of Popery if the Lord would try thee But he hath a Cup for thee to drink which will awaken thee he hath Arrows in his Quiver that will wound thee to the heart and lay thy persecuting Head-pieces in the Dust though the Innocent lift not a hand against them The Righteous God will plead the Cause of his People he will suddenly smite the stiff-necked and stout-hearted that say of his Son the Light of the World Nolumus hunc Regnare we will not have this man to Rule over us He will make the fat Bulls of Bashan Roar he will make the Beast feeble in his sinews yea as weak as water Down goes the Beast and the blind Guides together they that are willing to be deluded by them who make war against the Innocent An irrecoverable wound shall the Wicked receive and then shall they know the evil they have done in outstanding the day of their Visitation and helping on the miseries and afflictions of God's People UNto Thee O Lord God Omnipotent do we commit our Cause Thou Lord knowest the Integrity of thy Chosen ones Thou sees we have no other help in Heaven but thee and that there is none in all the Earth from whom we can expect deliverance but from Thee Thy Mercies are sure to thy Righteous Seed and thy Compassions can never fail nor be separated from it This is our Stay this is our Comfort O thou God of all Consolation thou art with us thy Love is to us thy Presence is amongst us and thy All-sufficient power is felt and witnessed within us Thy everlasting loving kindness which compasses us about no mortals can take from us Glory glory unto Sion's King for ever Lincolne the 7th day of the 11th Month called January M. M. THE END