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The dread of Gods power, uttering its voice thorough man, unto the heads of the nation. / George Fox the younger.
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Fox, George, d. 1661.
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Wing F1999; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.19[16]; ESTC R223008
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THE DREAD OF Gods Power Uttering its VOICE THOROUGH MAN Unto the HEADS Of the NATION George Fox the younger LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Signe of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand The DREAD of Gods Power c. OH ye Mighty men who sit upon the THRONE that are Exalted into power and brought into great Authority Do you indeed know the Hand that brought you up thither And do you rightly understand the End of your coming into power again and do you certainly know the Work which God requires at your hands And do you indeed see the true Leader which is to Lead in the Way Work of the Lord And do you Feel and Witness that your Hearts are truly Enclined and Prepared towards the Work of the Lord Or are you not Ignorant of these Things And do you not rather feel your Hearts enclined towards REVENG and to make your selves Great and to get your selves a Name and to follow that which is pleasing to your own Eyes and to Condemn that which God hath Justified and to Justifie that which God hath Condemned and doth Condemn Let there be an honest search made with the Witness of God in your own hearts which will shew you the thoughts and the intents thereof and think not to flatter your selves as other have done before you by conceiving that you are safe enough because the Arme of Flesh is with you and at your Command For verily verily Thus saith the LORD GOD I will yet make the Powers of the Earth to know that I am GOD and there is no other and that I can do whatsoever I please and my Purpose and Decree shall stand unalterable and I will bring to pass the thing that is in my Heart and none shall let it for in its season it shall be accomplished Oh! Hear ye REBELLIOVS and live Be not so stiff-necked and wilfull like those that went before you who would not hear Reproof least I make you a hissing and scatter you with more dishonor than any that went before you for my Anger is kindled and my Jealousie is waxed hot against the Man of Sin My Decree is to Dis-throne him and to take the Kingdom my self and to slay his Subjects that will not turn at my Reproof and be subject to my Government Therefore seek not your selves neither follow the Devices and Iniquity of your own hearts any longer for I the Lord am coming to plead with all Flesh and I will make mine Enemies know that I have Power to accomplish my own Work though I should find all the Armed Men and the Men in Authority against me Now this is my DECREE I will set up Righteousnesse in the Earth and I will establish Equity and Mercy amongst the people I will remove Oppression from off the Earth and I will Search out and Overthrow the Ground and Foundation thereof in whomsoever or in whatsoever it stands even as I overthrew Sodom in the dayes of old and they that will not hast out of it shall certainly be destroyed saith the Holy One who will break the Potsherds of the Earth that withstand him and Consume the Stubble the Thorns and the Bryers that set themselves in Battail against him who is a Consuming Fire Therefore Oh ye HEADS of the People Consider your Wayes and weigh your Actions in that equal ballance the Word of God which will shew you the thoughts and the intents of your hearts For verily the Lord God is highly displeased and your hearts are seen not to be right before him Therefore consider your foundation upon which you build least your building fall with great dishonour and loss when the Storme comes which shall come to try it Mark Were You or your Fathers and Friends able to keep your selves in Power when the Lord formerly appeared against you to cast You out before your Enemies because of your Rebellion against him Or were your Enemies able to keep you out of power and themselves in when the Lord appeared against them to Split and Confound them and to turn their day into darknesse and to bring you in as a Flood over them because of their treacherous dealing with the Lord and because they perverted the CAVSE and Power that was put into their hands serving themselves and their lusts and not the Lord Verily as they were not able to stand no more will you be able to stand and keep your places except you Repent and own that your Enemies had a just Cause put into their hands against you And so put a difference betwixt the CAVSE and That which perverted it and not judge and condemn both together for if you do verily I say unto you when you have filled up your measures You will assuredly fall without recovery though you were ten thousand times stronger than you are and although not one man appeared against you with a Carnall weapon Consider Was it a carnall weapon that brought you in Were you not brought in without a stroke outward And is not the Lord the same Is his Hand shortned hath not he the hearts of all Flesh in his Power And can he not turn them as he pleaseth Can he not Root out and Overthrow whomsoever he will And if he will do it without outward means Can any resist his Will Or if he will do it by outward means Cannot he provide it himself contrary to Mans expectation Therefore DREAD ye the MAJESTY and POWER of the LORD and fear before his Dreadful Name Friends I must deal plainly with you in the sight of God who hath made me a Prophet to the Nation I may not flatter any of you My life is in the hand of my Maker and not one hair of my Head can fall to the ground without his Providence He hath Redeemed my Soul from Hell and my Mind from the Earth and he hath given me his good Spirit to lead me I am henceforth no more my own but I am the Lords who hath Formed me for his Praise and hath brought me forth that I may sound forth his powerful Truth amongst the People Therefore must I not fear Man neither must I be afraid of the Sons of Men. Verily your Spirits are seen to be too high for the Work which God will have to be wrought in the Earth and you are found in that your selves which the Lord will work against And he is loaded with the pride and excess that ye and many in the Nation are in and his soul Abhors the Vanitie Musick and Pleasures which ye delight in Oh how hath iniquity abounded since ye came into place and how is Oppression and Cruelty increased and continued upon them that seek the good of all Now consider this That which the Lord was wroth with you for and threw you and your friends out for before he will not own That now nor that you should revive and establish That again For the Lords Controversy is yet against those things though he