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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

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