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The warnings of the Lord to the King of England and his Parliament as they were wrote and sent by his servant, George Bishope.
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Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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THE Warnings of the Lord TO THE King of England AND HIS Parliament As they were Wrote and Sent By his Servant George Bishope Shalt thou Reign because thou closest thy self in Cedar Did not thy Father Eat and Drink and do Judgment and Justice and then it was well with him He Judged the Cause of the Poor and Needy then it was well with him Was not this to know me saith the Lord Jer. 22. 15 16. London Printed in the Year 1667. The Warnings of the Lord c. To thee CHARLES STUART King of England am I moved of the Lord to write and to Thee it is the Visitation of his Love through him whose travel hath been for Thee in the depth of my spirit that Thy Soul may be saved in the Day of the Lord Therefore hear that thy Soul may live and thy Dayes be prolonged in the Dayes of thy Pilgrimage FRIEND THou hast been a man of Sufferings and deep sorrows have passed over thee the Lord at length hath brought Thee into a Land of Peace and set thee upon thy Fathers Throne and bowed the hearts of the People under thee so and after such a manner as was beyond the thoughts of thee or any that thus it should be And now what remaineth but that thou love the Lord and fear before him all thy dayes that it may be well with thee and thy posterity after thee and for this purpose that thou heed his Principle in thee which shews the Evil the End and Compass of all thy Actions the thoughts of thy heart and thy secrets upon thy Bed that so out of and from Transgression thou mayest come and be led into the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and the Blessing of God may be on Thee and peace and rest within thy Borders For of this thou art not ignorant as having largely tasted of the Cup that man suffereth for sin and that Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the North nor from the South but God is Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another who is come to set his King upon his holy Hill of Sion his Pâ—inciple in Man to reign for ever Unto which men shall bring the force of the Gentiles and their Kings shall be brought and the glory of Lebanon shall come the Fir-tree and the Pine-tree and the Box-tree men of all sorts together to beautifie the place of his Sanctuary who will make the place of his feet glorious and the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve it shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted and the Sons of those that afflicted it shall come bending unto it and all those that despised it shall bow themselves down at the soles of its feet and they shall call it The City of the Lord the Sion of the Holy One of Israel and whereas it hath been forsaken and hated so that no man passed through it he will make it an Eternal Excellency a Joy of many Generations it shall also suck the Milk of the Gentiles and the Breasts of Kings and it shall know that the Lord is its Saviour and Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob. In its dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel dwell safely and the Name by which it shall be called is The Lord our Righteousness and it shall no more be said The Lord liveth which brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but The Lord liveth which brought up and which led the Seed of the house of Israel out of the North-Country and from all Countries whither the Lord had driven them and they shall dwell in their own Land the Lord hath spoken it And the day is come wherein the Lord hath raised unto David a Righteous Branch and a King raigneth and prospereth that executes Justice and Judgement in the Earth whose Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion and his Kingdom that which shall not pass away in which Thou mayest Raign and Live for Ever Moved of the Lord God Almighty the maker of Heaven and Earth who hath seen thine Affliction and Adversity and delivered thee in much Bowels of Love am I thus to write whom the world in scorn calls Quaker but am known by the Name George Bishope Bristol the 27th of the 4th Moneth 1660. Give this to the King The Original of this was delivered into the Kings Hand at White Hall by Mary Saunderson To the King of England these are from the Movings of the Lord in Love and Pity to warn him to take heed how he hath to do in Banishing the Friends of Truth called Quakers or in making Laws against them or in Suffering such as do or in Signing such Bills or Yeelding to them or suffering them to Pass or to become Laws or to be Executed upon them so as that they are Banished this Land or Removed out of this Nation or Caused so to be or otherwise to Suffer FRom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth the Almighty am I moved to write and to Thee it is the Word of the Lord Signe them not nor Consent unto them For thou knewest the heart of a Stranger when thou wast an Exile in other Countries and wanderedst from one Nation to another People seeking rest and finding none and thine Enemies were great and many and thou wast disappointed in all thou undertookest and thou couldest not prosper nor was there a reasonable ground of Hope as to Man that ever thy Exilement should return especially so as it is now and so soon as now and so great and large as now even beyond the Glory of thy Progenitors yet this the Lord did for thee when thou wast low and little in thine own Eyes and when of Thy People there were none to deliver Thee and he heard thy Cryes and thy Groans and thy Sighes who wast a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and Delivered thee and placed thee upon the Throne of these Nations and bowed them unto thee and hath kept them under so that no evil occurrent that could hurt thee hath fallen out unto thee since thou first put'st thy foot on the English Shoare upon thy Returne and on thy bended knees spakest unto the Lord and gavest thanks unto him that had done this for Thee Now in the sence of this it is good for thee to abide and remaine alwayes so the remembrance of the Lord will be near thee who hath done all this for thee and thy heart will be still tender to those who are in such a condition as thou wast and so far from putting others there even the Innocent of whom thou hast a Witness in thee that they are Innocent as to thee viz. the People of the Lord called Quakers to Banish and to do otherwise unto whom thou art now called upon which can never be blotted out that thou wilt not be at rest till thou hast relieved such as are in the condition of
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 sorâ— 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