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A66772	A proclamation in the name of the King of kings, to all inhabitants of the isles of Great Brittain and especially to those who have hypocritically pretended to justice, mercy, honesty, and religion (as also to them who have lived in open prophaness and impiety) summoning them to repentance, by denouncing God's judgements, and declaring his mercy, offered in the everlasting gospel / warrantably proclaimed and preached by Geo. Wither ... ; whereto are added, some fragments of the same authors, omitted in the first imprinting of the book, intituled Scraps and crums, and a few which were collected since that impression, and during his imprisonment.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3181; ESTC R12240	34,610	74

A Proclamation In the Name of the King of Kings To all the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain And especially to those who have Hypocritically pretended to Justice Mercy Honesty and Religion as also to them who have lived in open Prophaness and Impiety summoning them to Repentance by denouncing GOD's Judgements and declaring his Mercy offered in the Everlasting Gospel Warrantably Proclaimed and Preached by GEO. WITHER Though not by any Humane Ordination Whereto are added some FRAGMENTS Of the same Authors omitted in the first Imprinting of the Book Intituled Scraps and Crums and a few which were Collected since that Impression and during his Imprisonment LONDON Printed in the year 1662. A PROCLAMATION In the Name of the King of Kings To the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain especially to all those who have Hypocritically pretended to Justice Mercy Honesty and Religion as also to them who live in open Prophaness and Impiety summoning them to Repentance by denouncing GOD'S Judgments and thereto encouraging them by declaring his Mercy offered in the Everlasting Gospel ON the first day of the Week the second day of the first Moneth in the second Year of revived Monarchy in these Islands and in the eighth Moneth of my Confinement for discharging my Conscience My Consort being then with me in the house of my Imprisonment and intending to reade some parcel of holy Scripture for our instruction and refreshment The first place presenting it self to her view and then read was the seventh Chapter of the Prophecy of Jeremiah the Contents whereof and part of the next seemed to my understanding when I had heard them to be so pertinent to these Nations in this Generation that I was immediatly inspired with a strong perswasion that the effect of those words heretofore dictated to Jeremiah by the LORD was then spoken to me by the Spirit of the same GOD and he having given me fifty years Experience of the Transactions between Himself and this People since I came to years of discretion and also called me to be a Prophet by that Ordinary Anointing whereof every true Member of Jesus Christ is partaker I thereupon thought my self as truly obliged in Conscience to proclaim it to all the Provinces Counties Towns and Cities of these Islands as the said Prophet Jeremiah was to publish it in the Gate of the LORD's House at Jerusalem Therefore in obedience to that Internal Motion I now declare and apply it in the same tearms changing and adding only the names and prevarications therein mentioned into those which are proper to this Time and Place The Effect of the said Prophecy is this which next follows paraphrastically expressed and in the Name and Fear of GOD I thus proclaim it Mutatis mutandis JEREMIAH the 7th Chapter and part of the 8th THe Word which came to the Prophet Jeremiah from the LORD came to me by the said Prophet saying Stand in the Gate of this City wherein the LORD hath yet his House there Proclaim this Word and say Hear the Word of the LORD and ye Inhabitants of Great Britain who pretend to worship the LORD Thus saith the LORD the LORD of Hosts the GOD of Israel and your GOD Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place Trust ye not in lying words or in your formal sanctity and will-worship saying The Temple of the LORD The Temple of the LORD nor say in boast here is only his true reformed Church and with us are his Ordinances for know The Temple of the LORD are these even they that obey his Word in them he dwells and among them is his approved Worship If you amend your wayes and your doings If you thorowly execute Judgement between a man and his neighbour If you oppress not the Stranger the Fatherless or the Widow nor shed innocent Blood in this place nor walk after other Gods in your heart to your hurt nor worship the True GOD according to the superstitious Inventions of men then will I cause you to dwell in this place which I gave unto your fathers for ever But behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit Will ye murder commit Adultery swear falsly sacrifice to false Gods and walk after such as ye know not and then come and stand before me in my House or think in your hearts you were delivered from your late troubles to do all these abominations Is that House which is called by my Name become a Den of Robbers in your eyes Behold I have seen it saith the LORD Consider now my Place which was in Shiloh where I set my Name at the first Consider also the City of Jerusalem and my Temple therein heed what I did to those places for the wickedness of my People Israel For in regard ye have done such works as they did saith the LORD and forasmuch as I spake unto you as I did to them rising up early yet was not heard not answered when I called upon you I will now do unto those Temples upon which ye have imposed my Name and to that Superstitious Worship wherein ye trust as I have done to Shiloh and Jerusalem For I will cast you out of my sight as I long ago cast our Ephraim and as I lately cast out many of your brethren Therefore pray not for this people that they may totally be delivered from the temporary visitation which their wilful sins have as it were constrained my Justice to bring upon them lest my Mercy should be quite contemned life not up thy prayer nor make intercession on their behalf for I will not hear thee to that purpose Seest thou not what they do in the Cities of these Isles and in the streets of LONDON their chief City Observest thou not what Swearings and Forswearings there are what Dissemblings what Apostacies and how few are now secure from the Spiritual and Temporal Oppressions of this Generation As they did in Jeremiahs dayes the Children gathered wood the fathers kindled the fire the women kneaded the dough to bake cakes for the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink oblations to other gods that they might provoke me to anger saith the LORD So the Children the Fathers the Women and the People of all sorts and degrees contribute toward their Superstitions according to their abilities after the mode of these times and pour out their drink Oblations of cursed healths to those Idols which they have set up and honour to the provocation of GOD's wrath But do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not rather provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces Verily they do so therefore thus saith the LORD Behold my anger and my fury shall be poured out on this place upon Man and Beast upon the trees of the Field upon the Fruits of the ground and they shall consume as if they were burnt up with an unquenchable fire Thus also saith the LORD of hosts the GOD of

Will make deep stamps on some of you Wo wo ere long to C. C. C. To P. P. P. P. P. and P. Like Wo to S. to M. and L. For they have made this Earth a Hell Wherein unless Christ quickly comes Few Good men shall have resting rooms And little Faithfulness will here Be found when he shall next appear But Time hath almost wheel'd that round Wherein the seventh Trump will sound And then shall Righteousness alone With Pow'r and Glory fill the Throne That JESUS who when by his Birth He was first visible on Earth Much troubled Herod and with him The City of Jerusalem And is that Universal Prince Of whom all Tyrants ever since Have been afraid will come ere long To set that right which now is wrong And put an end to their Oppression VVho charge his Subjects with Sedition For though some slighted them when they were seen His Harbengers have here already been IX A brief Reproof of them who take pleasure in Scandalous Invectives whereby others are personally defamed THere is a mangie Humour and an Itch At this day very troublesome with which Most men are so infected that unless We find a speedy cute 't will so increase And leave so few from this Contagion free That we shall all appear meer Scabs to be Now there is nothing more delights the ear Than when it shall those vilified hear Whom they affect not whether they are blam'd Without just cause or worthily defam'd Especially if those in ought dissent From their Opinions Although eminent For many Virtues and with them agree In all things which with Truth essential be And since our Diffrences did us divide Few men there are of note on either side Of good or ill desert but right or wrong They so aspersed are by Pen or Tongue And Truth if spoke so blended is with lyes With fraud or else with Ambiguities That if what is in Pamphlets published Should be hereafter by our Children read They 'l think this Age if they do credit it Had neither Honour Honesty nor Wit So scurrilous and so malevolent Are their Invectives and so impudent There are of Truths and Falshoods put together Such medlies made without respect to either And misappli'd in such a barbrous wise Mens Persons or their Cause to scandalize That whether they did wickedly or well They in their outward Fames are parallel And frequently by seeming to intend That which may their Antagonist befriend A Foe disguiz'd destruction doth devise For them whom he pretends to patronize Shews make of Peace where they bear no Goodwill And those to save whom they intend to kill This Bitterness and Falshood multiplies Those Discords and those Animosities Which have thus far undone us and this course Will make that which is bad grow daily worse Until it shall exasperate this Nation Beyond all means of Reconciliation For till there shall as much respect be shown To other mens Good-names as to our own And we are pleas'd to hear good spoke of those Who well deserve although they are our Foes We never shall be Friends nor friendship merit From any till we qualifie this spirit 'T is gentle speaking that appeaseth Wrath A bitter language no such virtue hath Yet let none think this means to usher-in A Reprehension of reproving Sin Or that it well beseems not any man To render Vice as odious as he can For no debasement can make Wickedness More ugly than essentially it is Though just Reproofs have not allowed been Where persons are more aim'd at than their sin Their Practice Justice doth to none allow Who at their Neighbours from an unseen Bow Shoot poysned Arrows and Bandetti-like The Passengers from such a Covert strike That none can truly know how they are nam'd Or where those dwell by whom they are defam'd In taxing Vices let nor Tongue nor Pen Act sparingly but spare alone the men As much as possible unless they shall Ingage themselves by quarrels personal Against the Truth Then spare them only so That thereby Truth may not receive a blow A causless Scandal nor a Lie admit Though thereby Truth may some advantage get For she or they will honour lose thereby Who think to do her service by a Lie Some Good-men not a little to their shame I fear are this way otherwhile to blame As much as they whose refuge it in Lyes And care not by what means they gain their Prize For when that an Impostor doth express What some-way suiteth with what they profess Oft-times by that Wile guilded Pills are swallow'd As wholsom which are poysned and unhallow'd And them deprive who are deluded so Of outward peace and Peace of Conscience too Take therfore heed of those who by their mingling Truths with apparant Falshoods and by gingling Some Silver among Counters may by shows Of their befriending that which they oppose Obtrude upon you somewhat that is evil Relating unto things Divine or Civil At least to make you hearken with content To what brings undeserv'd Disparagement On other men For all things baneful prove Wherein there 's want of Prudence Faith or Love X. A Disclaim by way of Advertisement of a Paper falsly imputed to this Author THere are Verses printed on one side of sheet Intituled The Wheel of Time turning round to the Good Old Cause which many who know not me nor my Principles nor my Writings from other mens have ascribed unto me who do abhor publishing any thing without my Name which may be scandalous especially to individual persons either by name or by marking them out in such manner that the Vices I reprove can be justly appropriated to them and to no other Neither did I ever purposly compose ought which might endanger the publick Peace or hazard the quiet of private persons whereof that Paper is suspected And indeed I conceived it at the first view to have been the composure of a malicious person who thereby intended to make those in Authority jealous of some Innovation intended by sober and conscientious men who I hope will make patient suffering their Refuge in all their Probations Therefore as soon as I had perused it I wrote these following Verses on the backside thereof and gave it unto a Friend to communicate thereby my sense thereof to others if he pleased He that divulgeth ought without a Name Which individual persons doth defame Although the Truth he writes deserveth blame Yea he that without soberness and reason Speaks what is true and speaks it out of season Against the Dignity of Truth speaks Treason Yet Saints may by oppressions now and then Be so provoked for they are but men That they may thus offend by Tongue or Pen. If it be so let him who forth hath sent Those Lines his folly heartily repent For they portend an Evil-Consequent G. W. XI To them who object it as a fault that this Author hath written several Poems since he resolved to write no more I Sometimes think my work is done and