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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09140	A few lines more for thee o England and for thy lofty ones in thee, and for all others of thine inhabitants ...		1662 (1662)	Wing F834; ESTC R177031	25,917	32

more or lesse day night for the accomplishment of these things and for the fullfilling of his vvord and decrecrevealed spoken and promised unto us that so Kings might become Nurssing Fathers and Queens Nurssing Mothers unto the Saints and People of God for sure I am that such Kings and Rulers vvhile on Earth would be for the praise of them that do vvell and for the punishment of such as do evill I say such as doe inqiuity and spend Gods good creatures in drunkeness and in all manner of excess of riot God vvill punish though they be never so great for usualy such doe studdie on their Beds of dovvn in other places hovv they may feed the delight of their eyes the lust of their minds pride of there lifs even to the maintaining of the pride of life in al manner of vvhordoms both Spirituall and carnall the vvhich I am sure God is highly displeased at and greatlie against and for such doings together vvith the blood of the Saints 〈◊〉 our God hath yet a greater controversie vvith the sons and daughters of men then ever the dreadfullness and terribleness thereof vvhen in God I have beheld it hath often times made me to tremble ye and to fall dovvn before his holy presence and to vvorship his holy name and to implore and humbly to beg and beseech him that he vvould pass such great iniquites by if it vvere his vvill But I finde no ansvver as yet from God that he vvill so do but I see the hand and judgments of the great God still stretched out and hasting over all the Inhabitants of the Earth And as for thee O England vvith thy great Cities and Tovvns likned have they been unto mee to great and little Babylon I say unto you that have slain misused and often abused and evilly 〈…〉 many of Gods dear People his servants and Prophets yea his true Prophets and children of the light I say unto you you have often times throvvn many of them into Prisons Holes and Dungeons vvhere vvicked persons have been vvho have misused the inocent even unto Death and many have been killed by reason of such ill usage And have not you or some of you the High-Priests Kings and Rulers of the Earth been the cause of all your ovvn the people misseries in the sheding of innocent blood I doe not mean that which you have shee l in the vvay you call justice and though you have already destroyed many in that vvay and thereby you have thought to have wearyed out the Saints of the most high the vvhich you can never do for God my God hath other wayes decreed and determined it And though you in England in your great Cities to wit in London Exetor Sarum Alies Salisbury Bristol Worcester Norwich Rochester Canterbury Linckolne York c. And you in the rest of your great and little Towns I say though you and the greatest part of your inhabitants daylie doe despite unto the Spirit of God in man and thus grieve the Holy one of Israel and thereby plainlie manifest whose servants you are for whose servants you are him doe you obey and so you forget that the wages of sin is Death I say though you forget God yet God vvill not forget you for he vvill revvard every man according to his vvorks O what then can you that are found in so great iniquitie Expect in this the day of Gods visitation I say what can you think of or expect for a requital other then the heavie dreadfull judgements of God upon you verely I knovv not And as for you in England with the greatest part of your Inhabitants you are poore and miserable yea and great finners against light for vvhich the Lord Iehovah hath yet a greater controversie with you then ever Therefore consider and take this good counsell vvhich follows vvithout goiing unto your Astrologers Southsayers Socerers or Magitions Wisemen so accounted I say in stead of going unto them goe unto God who is light which maketh all things manifest and then if you do but stand still a vvhile in Gods light you shall see light also you shall knovv see and feel that this good counsell cometh from Iehovah through a poore servant of Gods for all your good if evill bee not all together predominate in you and deceit wholy become yōur Lord and Master then that will make you run farther and farther from God untill you perish mark that as well as what followeth There vvill that come upon you in England of a sudden you that cease not spedily from sin and turn not unto the living God I say there vvill that come amongst and upon you of a sudden that will amaze terrifie and confound many of the great and mighty together with many others of the Inhabitants a little time more in comparison vvill manifest it Murmur not therfore yee sons and daughters of men but comfort yee one another in the Lord that can for you in England knovv not as yet hovv to avoid your falling into great coufusion persecution Blood and missery O England thou vvith thine Inhabitants vvilt fall together by the eares and then yee vvill rend tear and devoure one another like so many beasts of prey yee like so many vvild Bores of the Forrest vvill you stricke at one another And the harmless and innocent ones amongst you you vvill cut from off the Earth if the Lord permit at least as many of them as you judge or think do stand in your vvay such vvill you bannish hale to prison or othervvise persecute you thinking thereby to vveary them out that God hath already raised up to be Saints of the most high vvho doe novv vvitness against such abominations as cometh from him that delighteth to make desolate the People of God And as for thee O King of England thou vvilt be hardly put to it to escape for in the light of the Lord I have seen them nigh thee severall times that vvill be the cause of thy ruine if not thy utter destruction and the time vvill come that thou vvilt not knovv vvhat to doe nor vvhither to goe also thou shalt in vvords repent and say that it had been better for thee that thou hadst never been born thy misseries vvill be such then for thee to have done and suffered that to be done vvhich is already past And that vvhich thou vvilt yet farther suffer and mayest be accessary to the doing off vvill help forvvard thy missery and Calamnity for many there are that vvill be by thy consent and permission taken avvay from the evill to come by untimely Death and all this vvil be for the fullfilling of Gods decree revealed and made manifest unto mee But thy end in it O Man is not good the which is well known to the Almighty and unto some of his beloved ones who have been commanded and required from God to signifie the substance of these things unto thee and unto the inhabitants of the

write a few lines unto you And to the whole Israel of God and though I have a long time forborne it and have as it were strugled against it yet my life and love is with you and amongst you all the world over and in the Eternall light and love of God do I dearly salute you all Friends your lives in God are a joy and refreshing unto me even in the midest of all that unhumane and unceasonable dealings that you do And vvee may yet farther meet vvith all in this present evill earthly vvorld from cruel marciles and unreasonable men vvho have no mercy Therefore O Lord God everlasting keep us thy babes and lambs and preserve us pure that so our offrings unto thee may be as they are vvhen thou callest for them a continual svveet savour for in thy life do vve live and in it is our unity O Lord our all is offred up unto thee Thou art our Saviour Redeemer and deliverer vve are thy people and heritage plead thou therefore O Lord thine ovvn cause vvhich thou hast ingaged us in vve must die And because thou livest doe vvee therefore live vvith and in thee and so shall vvee do novv and for ever and ever vvorld vvithout end And novv vvhile vve are here do cary about in us a body of clay let us in the life light povver and strength of God be ever doing our Fathers vvill and as much good on earth as vve can All flesh is as grass and fadeth avvay our strength is to sit still God is vvith us and in us of a truth and he vvill deliver us I am sure Look not out therefore any of you O my dear friends brethren and sisters But sinke dovvn sinke dovvn into the depth of the Lord God of life and therein stand stedfast and plead in and vvith him for as God hath so vvill he asuredly here and ansvver his people and deliver us and confound our enemies as he did of Old For the Prayers Sighs Grones Suplications Cries Tears and oppressions of the poor and innocent have ofttengon up unto the Almighty and they do dayly reach to heaven and God is come and coming down to deliver us his people and to save us in the midest of all our tribulations God is risen to plead our cause Be therefore valiant in the Lord strong and of a good couradge so fare yee well yours in truth Emmanuel Israeliete Friends and Brethren this inclosed have laine some part of it as a thing lost buried hid for some time as you may see but it is now come to lightagaine And is sent unto you Therefore do with it O Lord God of hosts as seemeth good in thine own eyes thy seerets O Lord of Hosts God of Life are with them that feare thee and thy wisdom is given unto thy chosen ones to direct them the Spirit of the Almighty is free in his people that walk and abyde in his light to counsell guide lead teach and direct them in all their wayes and undertakings for God and as you find freedom in the Eternall Spirit so let this be done with all Either to imbrace it or not Friends I'am and shall be in the Lord a fellow feeler and sympathizer with you in what so ever you do and suffer for the Lord for in God alone is our victory over all in which victory let us stand triumph and rejoyce and there in shall we trample on and tread under foot our greatest Enemies yee Sathan the Father of them all And as it is written so shall it be the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death and vvhen our vvorke is done vvee must goe from hence and vvee shall be changed but not dye and that in a moment and twinckling of an Eye And in the unchangable God dearely beloved Brethren doe I dearly salute you and remain your friend and Brother in the unity of the eternall Spirit and life of God vvhere I shall for ever be and remaine your Friend yee and a Friend to publicans and sinners poscript Friends Golden snares and bayts are laid and laying for you to lift you up out of the deapth Holiness and vvisdom of the most high even vvhile the flesh and the lusts therein doe fortifie and fit it selfe for your bodily destruction Abyde still therefore in the dominion of God and he vvill not only give you to see vvhat is a doing on earth against you but vvhat he is also a doing in heaven for your preservation and deliverance vvhich is and must be in God over all That being unto God a dayly delight and a joy for God in us is and vvill be unto them that love us not a burthensome stone that vvill fall upon our enemies and breake them in peices and grind them to povvder vvithout our using of any Carnall vveapons O live therefore the life that 's everlasting and abyde in it for therein shall you Raign over all that is evil for ever and ever And novv let none make us affraid for vvhen any do let in fear that bringeth the righteous into snares Be therefore terrifyed in nothing for you are Gods and God is yours to his everlasting praise doe I speake it and rest Your Friend Emmanuel Israelite A Letter for the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated flock of Christ where soever they bee and for the mourners amongst them O Sonnes and Daughters of Sion lift up your hearts heads and hands unto the holy Lord God Almighty and in his pure and everlasting life light power and strength crie aloud day and night unto the most high for the holy and righteous God is Jealous of his name in you and blessed are all they that are not offended in him and are not at ease in Sion while there are any mourners therein And if it be so with any of you as I know and believeit is that many of you are already entred into your rest as God is entred into his rest then shall your worke and Labour of love in the Lord not be in vaine but it will be taken notice of and accepted of by the Lord and then shall you be more and oftener in the service of the living God then ever as I hope and believe you will be and you that can for get not the Angell Gabriel whose work and service is not unknowne Oh watchmen watchmen what of the night le ts give our God no rest untill he hath brought up all the mourners in Sion unto a continuall rejoycing in the one eternall and everlasting unity where there is nothing but the unutterable Ioys of heaven and that in the closest hardest and most dificult service for the living God that is Oh my Friends the battell is ours all ready onely our Father is will and must be supream head and Governour And therefore he will be sought unto night and day by the house of Israel and by every individuall member therein watch therefore in God and in