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
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
A FEW LINES MORE For thee O ENGLAND And for thy Lofty ones in thee And for all others of thine IN HABITANTS vven forth and sent abroad into the world with two letters for the comfort and consolation of the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated Flock in Christ and mourners amongst them wheresoever they be 〈◊〉 the end the Children of Light and all they that hunger and thirst after righteousnes may be comforted and refreshed in God in the middest and depth of all their persecutions tribulations sufferings and afflictions that they may yet meet withall from wicked cruel and unreasonable men who take delight to crucifie the Lord of life light and Glory a fresh and put him to open shame in his people Also a few lines for the wicked People and powers of the World with some wholsome Councel and good advice given unto me from the Lord God Almighty to give unto them especially unto the people and powers of England Ireland Scotland Holland and Germany where the name of God hath been and is so emenently professed and so great a reformation pretended that so they may all hearken unto hear and obey the voyce of God and so live in love and peace out of persecution and at last sit down in the Kingdom of glory with Abraham Isaac and Iacob And therefore and pray that can that ye enter not into temptations for a work of wonders is the Lord my God farther a doing in and upon the Earth And for all you Loftyons of the Earth that rebell against God know that except you repent you shall likewise perrish Luke 13. ver 3. and 5. And the Lord shall cut of all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psalm 12. ver the 3. as he hath hither to done An Epistle to the Reader LEt this serve as a warning and as an invitation of love for all people great and small high and loe rich and poor old and young professors and prophane to turn you all that are not yet turned unto the living God for it is brought forth to publique view in its appointed season and time part whereof is already fullfilled and the remainder is fullfilling apace yee in our dayes and age Watch therefore and pray that can that you enter not into temptation for the Lord God Almighty hath not forgotten to be gracious nor hath his compassions at any time failed any of the sonnes and daughters of men that have turned unto him and walked and abode in his light life and dostrine And because some of you in England c. have misspent your precious time in makeing a mock of sin And have made an ill use of your stewardships in the ill management of your affairs so mercifully friendly and favourably put into your hands therefore is this most principally directed unto you to let you know that God is angry with you and that he will ere long be avenged on you for you in England hath the Lord God began vvithall first And there vvill the Lord Jehovah make his name famous and everlastingly Glorious also God hath and vvill vvork vvonders there as vvell as in other places and none shall let or say vvhat dost thou Friends be not angry nor partial vvho ever you be that hear or read this And be not deceived God is not mocked Gal. 6. ver 7. But in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ see vvhither you have not almost sinned avvay your most precious time and trifled away the dayes of your visitation in all manner of excess And for you that have not so spent your precious time that Gods spirit hath not done striving in you or vvith you and you are not become as Pharoahs then turn you unto the light within you and obey the voice of God in you for that is it which vvill lead you into the living life if you be found faithful to God for that light in you vvhither you knovv or believe in it or no is of God it is that in man vvhich shevveth man good and evil and it vvill one day Judge you and if you doe but a little consider it will now shew you vvhat you are And what you have been and then if you or any of you that have been and are abominable sinners shall in the true light and sence of your conditions cleave unto God and for sake your sins and all your abominable doings then shall you soon know a curb to your lusts and wicked wills and such of you as shall thus truly turn unto God and follovv him you shall quickly come to know feel and see a bridle to your Tongues and vvhat it is to be made partakers of the glory of the Lord in the Land of the living for the living be they that shall praise thee o God vvhen the dead though alive and them in the grave though once never so mighty and great cannot for the dead be they that shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear and obey God shall live forever and ever vvorld vvithout End Amen And now my Friends every vvhere Arise from the dead and come forth and sing all ye that dwell in the dust for God is Just and the Avenger he is of the cause of the innocent who hath often times sealed the deliverance of his people unto mee and I am sure that God is rode forth Conquerring and to Conquer all the vvorld over and to make a short vvork in righteousnesse upon the Earth And God it is in Men Women and Children every vvhere that calleth them to a turning unto himselfe and to repentance from dead works and to a seasing from sin that so they may serve the living God in newness of life and vvalking uprightly before God in true holinesse peace and righteousness all the dayes of their lives vvhich many have promised God so to doe in the dayes of their distresses but some of them have forgotten that and so have sinned against light as well now as formerly in runing a whoring after their own inventions lusts and immaginations c. And thus they have and doe provoke the just and Iealous God of Heaven and Earth to vvrath against them who is not slack in justice and judgment And therefore I plainly tell you who ever you are that your going on in sin have and will be your missery your not seaâ—sing from persecution superstition sin Idolitry is that which have provoked the just and jealous God to wrath judgement and indignation against you I say God is now as well as of old jealous of his name in the children of Men and his Glory He will not give to graven immages though many now adaies so do mark that For such do dayly persecute and afflicting the children of the most high God that God which heareth and answereth prayers who hath heard and answered his people and God the mighty Iehovah hath diverted as well as revealed many of your secret
peace-breaking and in blood-guiltiness persecution sin superstion Idolitry shall have but little quiet for God hath determined vvonderfull things to be And these things herein called Englands dome hath been from God often times signified unto me to be that which vvill surely come upon Englands Inhabitants so sure vvill they come as that which is allready past for none shall hinder the decree of God Now vvhen the Lord God Almighty first began to open these things unto me great vvere his mercies and infinit was his loving kindnes in and unto me insomuch that if I had the tongue of men and Angels I were not able to express and declare it I being but as a child and one as vvith a stamering tongue hath in the strength of my God 〈◊〉 made manifest vvhat God hath at present required at my hands this being written from the requirings of God the latter end of the yeare 1661. I say this called Englands dome vvas then vvritten but the other things vvere vvriten at other times Novv the mightie vvonderfull and povverfull appearances of the Lord God of Wisdom were such in and unto me for days and nights that had not God in his mercy and goodnes tovvards me borne up my Spirits I had then laid dovvn the body for vvhen God thus opened revealed these things in and unto me and gave me thus to behold see his great and Glorious presence I then had a cleare sight of all these things herein mentioned and then even then I beheld and savv dreadfull and terible things that the vvicked of the Earth should in a little time more be found doing of against the Godly further the Bloodsheding misery Calamity and confusion that in the light of God I then savv coming not only in upon poor England but else where vvould make the stoutest Kings Princes Priests and People of the Earth there harts to tremble and quake to behold and see it as I have done And this sound of the Spirit of God have often passed through mee O what would I do to save this people So that through mercy I can truly say testifie to the vvhole world that God is good to Israel unto them that obey him are of a pure and upright heart also that this Gods wonderfull dealings vvith me is not for naught for in the middest and deapth of all our tribulations suffrings and aflictions that vvee the People of God and sheepe of our Fathers pasture may yet meet vvith all I say from God that in the hight of all our enemies fury towards us God the Lord of Hoast vvill deliver us his poor innocent and oppressed ones that abide and trust in him these things hath my God opened and perfectly shevven unto me againe and again yea and sealed them unto and in me to the end that I should publish them unto the sons and daughters of men that so all the People of God on earth may be comforted yee and be made to abyde stedfast and unmoveable allvvays abounding in the vvorke and service of God in the middest of our greatest suffrings And novv vvhile the vvicked doe vvalke on every side and the vildest of men are exalted let us the People of God be ever more found doing our Fathers vvill one Earth as it is in Heaven and as much good to our enemies as vvee can for in our so doing our God and Father vvill be vvell pleased vvith us and he vvill delight himselfe in us to the perfecting of his praise for us and by us And for all you Kings Princes Rulers Preists People and Povvers of the Earth of the Earthly mind Flatter not your selves any longer and suffer not your selves to be deceived and flatred withall fauned upon by your high Priest blind guids for such doe but sevv pillows of downe under you vvhich vvill deceive both you and them at last I say deceive not your selves nor them that you have povver authority over But turne you unto the light of God vvhile you have a day and time and ceace from sin you little and lofty ones of the Earth and do good and be yee all found in Moderation and in the vvorks of holines rightousnes peace and truth for the Lords sake other vvayes it vvill goe very hard with you all I doe assure you And novv vvhosoever you be that shall be found in the path of righteousnes peace and truth and in vvell doing also in moderation it may then be trulie hoped that such people doe knovv that the Lord God Almighty is nigh at hand to judgment for sin And for all you Kings Rulers and people that shall be found in the exercise of the things that are good you shall have true comfort therein and the tryal of your faith and patience in your so doing vvill be of much more comfort unto you then all your Earthly crovvns yea then al your gold honour that perisheth now that true honour which cometh from above is first pure then peacable it is also gentle and easy to be intreated it is also full of love good vvorks and vvhat not that is of good and of honest report and sure I am that all they that live in this moderation be they Kings or others they must needs knovv good from evill and avoid the one and love the other And novv friends did you but knovv vvho it vvas that came from Bozero vvith his Garments rouled in blood sure you would tremble for he it is that is come and comming to judge the Earth yea to judge both the quick and dead or did you but consider as vvell as knovv that some men for sheding of innocent blood have already payed deare you vvould then seace from blood and never do iniquity more Novv doe you not knovv that blood is a crying sin and that the cry thereof hath often reached unto Heaven And hovv God remembreth it and that he vvill be avenged thereof Have you forgotten that God judgeth amongst the Gods and do you not knovv for vvhat God hath cast dovvn some and raised up others and hovv he giveth the Kingdomes of men unto vvhomsoever he pleaseth and that he is no respector of persons and vvill you yet go on in your sins sure you that Rule over men ought to be kinde loving mercifull and just I say unto you vvhosoever you be that thus hunger and thirst after innocent blood God vvill give you blood to drink again at last bring you into confusion vvoe missery torment and trouble for there is innocency in many vvho thirst not after blood and vvrath in the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the vvorld on their behalfe and God my God vvill in a little time more manifest it and make it apeare unto all thevvorld And then you that have seen this Testimony vvill say that this vvas a plaine and faithfull vvarning as vvell as a loving invitation foresight and 〈◊〉 for the healing of the Nations and People of the Earth especially them of England And now I tell you in England c. make vvhat confedracies you vvill vvith in your selves vvith Death and Hell that tends to blood the Lord God omnipotent God over all vvill reveale and discover it God in his own time vvill blast you it that shall be found therein Also make vvhat conjunctions confedracies you vvill vvithin your selves and vvith other Nations vvho are infatuated as vvell as you it shall all be for the fullfilling and accomplishing of these things herein spoken off and treated on Friends novv learn to knovv that God is he vvhich maketh all things manifest Therefore wait patiently in God all ye children of light and be still and think not much any of you at your sufferings for God beholdeth it and taketh care of all you that trust in him For through suffrings must redemption come Also knovv if any shall say he or they hath a Revelation or Prophesie and commeth in the name of the Lord and speaketh falsly the Lord God will reward such with the evil of their own doings therefore let no man destroy such also if any man shall draw back from the service of the living God my soul saith God through me shall have no pleasure in such let no man therefore now neglect to do the service and requirings of God Friends I say again wait patiently in God and see what a fevv yeares more will bring forth and be not impatient but watch and pray that can and as it is said before so doe And now take no care when you or any of you shall be had before Kings and Princes for his name sake or before other Rulers for the Lord careth for you and remember that it be the patient and the meek that do and shall iuherit the Kingdome that cannot be removed in which Kingdome is the Crownimmortall which fadeth not away its Gods Kingdome And for thou O King of England let this folowing Counsell be acceptable vnto thee amongst the rest Break thou of thy sins by Righteousness and thine Iniquities by showing mercy unto the poore if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillitie But if thou shalt yet goe on in the fullfilling of thy lust and in suffering the truly Inocent peaceable people of God to be worrowed brused abused and beaten a while Longer as they have bin As heavey a hand from the Lord God Allmighty will fall upon thee and them that cause such Greiuious and abominable things to be don as hither to hath bin don and Inflicted upon Gods pore babes Lambs and little ons As ever fell upon King Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzer or Darious For Great Babelon is still in Remembrance before the Great God of heaven and Earth whose reward is nye for all There Creueltyes don unto the saints and people of God The End