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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

with the wicked in persecuting the Innocent surely there reward will be great in Heaven My Friends I was once of this Religion which is now in Power I was signed with the sign of the Cross baptized into the Faith my Godfathers and Godmothers Promised and Vowed that I should forsake the Devil and all his works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh and that I should keep Gods Holy Will and Commandments all the dayes of my life and when I was young my Father had me Bishop'd thinking thereby to gain a blessing for me I spent many years in Oxford where the carriages of the Schollars did trouble me in that day they were so wilde after the best sort of Religion and custom of the Nation was I brought up then the Lord drew me to this City where I applyed my heart both Evening and Morning and at noon day unto reading and hearing the Common-Prayer when there was but one place of Worship left in this City I went to it and when there Books were burned I stood for them for my heart was wholly joyned unto them and when the King's head was taken off my heart and Soul was burdened that I was even weary of my Life and the Enemy waited to devour me then did the Lord take away my hearing that I was deaf as to all Teachings of Men for a year then that Faith which I was baptized in did no good for all that the Man and Women had promised and vowed I should do I could not forsake the Pomps and Vanities and sinful lusts of the Flesh I run into and they stood alwayes before my eyes my cry was continually unto the Lord that I might put off that body of death which hindred me from his presence then did the Lord carry me to a Meeting of the People called Quakers where I was filled with the dread and Power of the Lord and it raised my Soul to bear Testimony to the Truth and after a little season the Lord set my sins in order before me and every idle word which I had spoken was brought to my remembrance where I received a just reward from the Lord and so came to have Peace of Conscience with my Saviour which I never could obtain whilst I walked with those People Oh my Friends I can truly say ever since I was a Child the witness of God pursued me and what ever I did I had no Peace in this worship or Service which is now in being it tired and vexed my tender Soul to see what a sad estate I was in but now Glory be to the Lord I am set at Liberty from this vain Religion which never profited me at all and would you have me to conform to this Religion which keepeth the Soul in the grave hay I shall never conform unto this worship whilst I have breath but shall bear my Testimony against it for I know the powerful Cod is risen to throw it down and wo be to all that uphold it Oh your Rulers be it known unto you if you will not do Justice and ease the oppressed and set the Captives free the Lord will overturn you and destroy you from being a People as he hath done in years past for his sword is in his hand and it will cut you down unless you do repent ye shall likewise perish One Warning more to the Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites OH Woe be unto you Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites and all other Officers under you for the Lord is risen in Power yea he is risen in dreadful and terrible Wrath Oh! I have seen I have seen this Night the dreadful Flames which the Lord God will cast you into Oh! your Communion-Tables which you sacrifice upon unto Devils and not unto the living God your Altars which you bow down unto and make an Image of will the dreadful Lord of Vengeance overthrow in his fiery Indignation your Surplices and Tippets and all your loathsome Robes which you dress your selves withall which are like unto a menstrous Cloth before the Eye of the pure Jehovah he will rent them all off who is the Bishop of our Souls Oh you Bishops Priests Deacons Friers and Jesuites once more will the Judge of Heaven and Earth plead with you because you are a blood-thirsty Generation you are a building of Zion with blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity as your Forefathers did in the dayes of old Therefore will the Lord of the Harvest cast you heaps upon heaps as stones in the street and as mire in the high-way the Lord of Heaven and Earth loaths your Worships your Singing and the Noise of your Organs doth the Lord abhor and instead of your instrument of musick will the lord make you howl and lament bitterly in so much that the Earth shall be astonished and your Downfal shall be so great that Nations shall fear and tremble before our God your Communion and Union is with Devils and unclean Spirits and not with the powerful God which creats a new Heaven and a new Earth and this shall you see fulfilled in its time and season for the Lord hath determined your utter Destruction both Pope and Bishops both root and branch from off the face of the Earth Oh it hastens it hastens and Wrath will not stay In this glorious day in which Zion is rayed in beauty bright To stand in her strength against this dark Night Whose Clouds are so many and Skie so dim That Zions Beauty can hardly be seen But the Lord is risen in this his glorious Day To sweep Bishops PrElates and Clouds away Babylons Destruction is very near let all the World fear for evermore A few Words unto the Royal Seed which is chosen of God and seperated from the World to do his Will for ever OH Friends blessed are you of the immortal God who are centred in the City of refuge which is made without hands which indeed is the lot and inheritance of the unspotted Lambs whose Hearts are after nothing but the Glory of God which is the Crown and Cause of rejoycing of his Sons and Daughters who do inhabit in and about this City who are come to the Church of the First-born and to the innumerable company of Angels and to the SpIrits of just men made perfect Oh! my beloved Ones your Life is above this City and denies the Vanity of it and it loaths the Worship that abounds in it Oh! it is well with you for the Lord hath made you up as his Jewels and Pillars in his House for ever Oh! my Friends who do inhabit in and about this City who are convinced of the Abominations and Uncleanness that is committed in her I am moved of the dreadful and terrible God to warn you that you do not joyn with her Spirit neither in word nor thought for assuredly the day of her pain and sorrow is at hand in the which she shall weep bitterly and

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