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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44789	A general epistle to the dispersed and persecuted flock of Christ Jesus in the dominion of England and all parts and regions where this shall come who have believed in Christ the Light of the World and now suffers for his names sake / [by] F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3161; ESTC R30345	10,851	16

of God they tell the Magistrates the Phanaticks and Quakers is the cause and so they fast for strife and to kindle debate and to stir up Persecution and they seem to cleave so close to the Magistrates that will force and exact gain for them and give them large pay they will cry them up as the higher power that all is to submit unto in all things under pain of condemnation and they will cry them up and dance and clap their hands and rejoyce as Israel did about the Calfe when they had forgotten God so the Lord is provoked more and more and they think by rooting out his people is possible will stay his Judgments it 's lamentable to see what blindness is over the hearts of the Seers of this Generation w●o c●y peace peace and how People are given up to believe their lyes and to hardness of heart and never consider their own estate neither the afflictions of Joseph is remembred Another thing also hath been in my heart many weeks and a query hath been in my self and I know hath been on many spirits why in this common Calamity and in Gods Visitation of the City of London and many other places of this Nation that they that have suffered so greatly so long and so faithfully and have borne such a Testimony for the Lord why also they should be taken away among the Rest seeing the Lord was able to deliver and also command his Destroying Angel to pass over as it pleased him and spare and take away as he pleased and why it should not be wholly upon his enemies and upon them that called not upon his name in truth and righteousness I have had many sad thoughts of heart and have waited upon the Lord concerning these things with supplications and tea●s concerning his afflicted People and concerning his Name and Truth and this satisfaction I have received in my self and do communicate unto you First Of all it is said that Paul stayed and preached the Gospel at Ephesus two yeares so that not only them of Ephesus but all Asia heard the Word of God both Jewes and Greeks and many were gathered unto God and believed and the rest were hardened When I considered this that not only two years but twelve years that Citty of London hath heard the Word of the Living God declared and published plentifully in it and the everlasting Gospel of Christ in the demonstration of the Spirit and with power in so much that the sound went through and through and many believed and the rest were hardened having lost the day of their visitation but alass it was but a few considering the labour and travel and considering so many thousands who counted the things of God a sleight matter and for them that were worthy and did believe they were hated and despised and evilly entreated with the most and shut up in holes and miserable bonds and prisons and lingering torments which often time was the cause of their death whose lives God is requiring at the hands of that place and the Messengers of God was mocked abused and evilly entreated and shut up in bonds till death and wickedness did abound and peoples hearts grew hard in ease riches pride and vain glory till the wrath of God broke forth and cut down thousands in his displeasure and this was seen and foreseen full three whole years and upwards by some of the faithful servants of God who laid down their lives in bonds in that City and are gathered unto the Lord and also some who remain in the body unto this day and it was prophesied of and the City was warned thereof Rulers and People but the most made a mock of it till the just judgment of God seized upon it Secondly The Lord took away these faithfull men of God Edward Burrough Richard Hubberthorne and George Foxe Junior who had been much conversant there who were faithfull Watchmen and prevailed often with the Lord till they were shut up in Bonds for all their sore travel and labour amongst the Inhabitants thereof and that place being unworthy of them any more he delivered them and took them away to himself from the evil to come that they had seen and prophesied of that they might see none of that misery that is now come Thirdly They were gathered unto the Lord as a token and signe unto them that believed of many following after and of their dissolution Fourthly The Lord did fore-know and fore-see and also had determined evil against that City and that which is now come to pass and that this Generation notwithstanding all the entreaties woeings warnings and exhortations which they had and slighted and that they would proceed on to more mischief and persecution in presumption against God and his People and are yet determined and have said in their hearts though the bricks be fallen down we will build with hewn stone to fortifie themselves that their end might not faile which the Lord God will blast and confound and though Friends have borne their iniquity they shall at last bear it themselves and know the reward thereof and have none to help so the Lord hath taken away many in his love and mercy from the evil to come and hath freed them from further misery and hath Translated them out of the reach of all their Enemies Fifthly Seeing they have suffered long and faithfully in that place and elsewhere and hath borne a living Testimony many to the loss of their lives and to their ruinating in this World against the Abominations that did abound and their righteous souls was vexed as Lots was with the Sodomites the Lord hath considered and hath said it is enough your afflictions I will end and take you into my rest and peace out of the reach of the Oppress●r Sixthly For the frustrating of the purpose of them who decreed that unrighteous decree for banishment that it may not profit them neither answer their end and unrighteousness and the Lord the Lord hath cut them short of their purpose and will cut them short of their hope and in the end bring their councel to nought for that which is formed against the Lord shall not prosper Seventhly For the hardening the hearts of this Generation who have devised mischief from the Womb and have gone astray as soon as they were born after so many warnings and evident tokens of his hand against them and of his displeasure which hath been set at nought and yet are resolved to go on to root out the heritage of God I say that their hearts might be hardened and their eyes closed that they may not discern betwixt the end of the Righteous and the wicked nor see a difference in their states but as one dies so dies the other as to the outward appearance though you beloved know a difference both in life and death and I do believe many who have laid down the body and put off this Earthly Tabernacle have given great Testimony of Gods love unto them of his favour peace and acceptation in the in the latter end in this which I have said I am satisfied and therefore could not but signifie the same un●o you that we might not sorrow concerning them that die in the faith and sleep in Christ as them who are without hope for these rest from their labours and their faith works and life shall live and we have and enjoy their spirit and life so it is only personal absence of this Earthly Tabernacle that we want so in that all be comforted Last of all The wayes of the Lord are unsearchable but as he reveals them to them that fear him and whatever may be manifest to any other this I am certainly perswaded of that God will have honour and glory through all these things as it shall be in the end for the prosperity of the Gospel of truth and I am perswaded of this though the Lord should permit many to be destroyed outwardly of all they enjoy yet they are resolved to trust in him for ever And though the day be dark and gloomy and the Devil be let loose to try the faith of them that dwell upon the Earth and the wrath of the wicked be great yet the bond is set that they cannot pass and though we that yet remain alive to this day were all dissolved and rowled in the dust together which is the end of all flesh yet that life and power which we have believed in and that everl●sting truth which we have testified of and suffered for shall never be extinguished or rooted out but shall take up other persons and bodies from Generation to Generation while Sun and Moon endureth in this be all assured and comforted in the Lord and chearful in your sufferings and comfort and strengthen one another in the royal seed of God all live and dwell which cannot bow to the seed of the Bond-woman which hath the promise of life and Immortality and everlasting blessedness and all look unto the Lord over all and above all the rage and wrath of men and the afflictions of this present life and feel that which is without end The God of power be with you and comfort you in the midst of all your trials and preserve you that your faith fail not is the earnest desire of him whose heart is knit unto the Lord and all his suffering People in the Everlasting Covenant of life and peace Pray all unto the Lord without ceasing that you may be able to follow the Lord though through the valley of the shadow of death the peace of God fill all your hearts that you may rejoyce in the Lord and trust in him for ever Yours in Life or Death F. H. 16 th of the 8 th Moneth 1665. THE END