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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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