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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43847	The poor widows mite, cast into the Lord's treasury wherein are contained some reasons in the justification of the meetings of the people of God called Quakers with an approbation of several truths held by them, and the ground of dark persecution discussed / written by a woman of the south, who came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of him that is greater than Solomon, and doth a far off behold the happy estate of his friends and servants who stand continually before him, to hear and receive wisdom from him, who is the true Emanuel, now left it should be counted a libel or any should think we dare for own it in the world, I have subscribed my name.	Hincks, Elizabeth.	1671 (1671)	Wing H2050; ESTC R20070	37,177	47

the Sun with its most glorious beams In its large Womb hath swallowed up her pale and glimmering Streams By which he Body is made dark this all may plainly see And when it gets before the Sun then an Eclipse will be Yea this also may be minded because it is most clear The Sun is ne're Eclipsed but when th' Moon is in its Sphere And the Earths Body also is as dark as is the Moon For when it gets before the Sun the Moon 's Eclips'd full soon Thus Nature hath these outward Signs that in their Sphears do run For the Earths Body doth Eclipse the Moon and She the Sun These outward Signs of Heaven were discern'd by men of old Who yet the Mystery did not see being all led blind-fold Because the God of this World had their minds wholly blinded Lest that the Gospel-Light should shine and they by it be led And though the Hypocrites of old Heavens outward could discern Yet did not know true Bethlehem where Gods own Seed was born Of these Figures the Prophets did of old make use you see When they told where the World was set in mans heart there to be So he that to God is a Friend must have the World cast out From this same place where it is set else Truth it will not sprout And this the cause of the Eclipse that man comes not to know Neither beginning nor the end of him God doth not show The works that he at all times doth they being heavenly Because of this total Eclipse that on his heart doth lye So that the Moons dark Body 's of to us no use at all The Sun reflecting not thereon by the Earths Interval This made the Seers which of old with shame confounded were For they no Answer of God had because they Preacht for hire Yea for money they did Devine and Judged for reward Thus building up Sion with blood no sight had of the Lord. The dark Moon here is turnd to BLOOD tho it pretend to build The glorious Mountain of the Lord have hereby Saints blood spill'd And yet for all this seem to lean themselves upon the Lord As if no evil she had done but in heart did accord This hard-heart Earth was still the same of which the Lord so long Complain'd of in the Wilderness it grieved him so strong To day to day for forty years oh this was all the noise But their hard hearts they could not hear the sounding of his voyce This Earth this Lust this Will this Fesh they being of one nature Are those that keep the glorious beams from shining on the Creature But now the Day of God is come expel those Mists he will Which do his Sun-beams over-cast that shine would on his still For though a man have outward eyes be they never so clear Yet if that Night do him oretake he is little the neer And as it is in outward Earth this is the cause of Night Having a Body thick and gross its self hinders the Light This Judgement was on th' Prophets which with their keen Teeth did bite ' Gainst those that put not in their mouths in War prepare to fight Therefore Night should be unto them they shall no Vision have Not so much Light as to devine how they themselves may save And down o're them the Sun shall go are Prophets of that day Yea darkness shall oretake them all who make not God their stay They therefore shall cover their Lipps for tho they call and cry They shall no answer have from God ' cause in the earth they lye These were also the Belly-gods whose glory was their shame For that they Earthly things did mind and therefore were to blame And this likewise was that also which Demas did embrace Who for this present world did forsake both Truth and Grace These were the false Teachers of which Peter did so fore-tell Should Heresies damnable bring that swift destruction fell Upon them in their great glory for that they should deny The Lord Light Life that thus bought them so in dark Death shall lye Yea these are they through Avarice and fained words should make Merchandise of the People too this darkness they did take And following these pernitious wayes is the sole reason why Truths way is evil spoken off to th' Light they 'l not come nigh So this is Moon Eclips'd you see the Earth and the hard Heart And now before this Cloud be gone these things must feel the smart For that the World and things therein must all be burnt with fire And be removed from his place in the Day of Gods ire But what is that which doth Eclipse the Sun The Moon I 've said When it is turned into Blood then doth it the Sun shade And makes his Body to look black and shine as if it were For all its great and glorious beams but a Sack-cloth of hair This was the time that Joel did prophesie of and say When Sun was dark then Moon was blood this should precede Gods day And 't was fulfil'd when the sixth-Seal was opened for loe A mighty Earth-quake then was seen which many well do know For then the Stars of Heaven fell unto the Earth their place Because they were untimely Figgs they staid there but a space For by this mighty Wind and Storm which God among them sent He shook off what untimely was tho glorious things were ment And now the Earth not only doth but also Heavens shake Because Gods Day is at the door they tremble do and quake For this first Earth and Heaven too which Man could not sustain Are both together shaken now their Form doth not remain Therefore this Heaven departed is even as it were a Scrole For all their glorious fained words together when t is rowl'd And every Mountain and Island which glory in their graces Are by this Storm and mighty Wind remov'd out of their places And they that were Kings of the Earth Great and Rich Men also With chief Captains and mighty Men with Bond and Free-Men go And hide themselves within the Dens yea on the Mountains call And on the Rocks for to hide them or upon them to fall These are the Presbyterian Moon which in the Night was Light But when to Persecution fell then all was Blood and spight But now their Kingdom shaken is and they are made to quake Having their Measure measured back this makes their own hearts ak● This makes their Stars their mighty Men down from their heaven fall Rather than they will drink this Cup that is mixed with gall And so what Antichristian was in Way and Form before And Covenanted then against the same they now Adore Thus now their Valiant Captains do from Heaven daily slide Their Rich and mighty Men also in Rocks and Mountains hide From the Light Face of him that sits upon his Fathers Throne And from the Wrath of the Lamb which they often made to grone Object But some may now Object and

say This is not fairly done To rip up this our misery in the sight of the Sun And as it were for to rejoyce or'e us in this our fall Nor do you put a helping hand to any of us all Answ To this I Answer It is just the measure is your own For the Saints blood some of you drank as lately hath been shown Your mighty men but lately were Merchants of Babylon And dealt in Slaves and Souls of men Alas your City 's gon For tho in Scarlet deckt with Gold with pretious Stones and Pearls And in Fine Linnen cloathed were and lived then like Earls Yet now your Ships and Companies of Sailers which did Trade Within the Sea of Babylon did weep and wail and said Alas alas that great City wherein we rich were made Is like a Mill-stone cast i' th Sea thus God doth us degrade Wherefore O Heaven or'e her rejoyce ye Prophets also too With the Apostels for God hath on her revenged you And your Crafts men with all their Craft no more in her be found Nor yet at all shall there be heard a Mill-stone for to sound Thy Candle-light for evermore exstinguished shall be The voice of Bridegroom and of Bride be heard no more in thee For that thy Merchants they still were the Great Men of the Earth Which by their Sorceries deceiv'd all Nations of their Breath For that in her was found the Blood of Prophets and of Saints And all that were slain on the Earth which brings on her heart-faints Therefore we which in Heaven dwell with voice and one accord Continual Halilujas sing Salvation to the Lord. With Glory Honour and Power let 's praise the Lord of Heaven Whose Judgements just and righteous be he to the Whore hath given For why she did corrupt the Earth with her vile Fornication Gods Servants blood for Vengeance cryes on her abomination Now blood unto her God hath given for that it is her share Yea she is worthy of the same ' cause Saints blood she 'd not spare Object But some may say Why do you thus apply these things to them When you also now Sufferers are which come of Jesses Stem Answ For Answer though we may be slain for the good Word of God And for the Testimony held which we have from the Lord As those Souls under th' Altar which unto the Lord did cry For Vengance on those dwelt on Earth and answer'd Ye must lye Vntil the rest of your fellow-servants and Brethren to Which witnesse bear unto my Name be kill'd as well as you For thus 't was under the fifth Seal the Angel open'd when The Moon was blood the Stars did fall and Sun was hid from men What from the Earth can we expect when Blood 's the light of heaven But Persecution with effect when Stars to it fall even But by the way Observe under the Altar Souls do lye The which the Sacrificer kills and there he doth them tye And so Obedience was lost which was better than any Of all the Sacrifice they made though offer they did many For their Oblations they were vain Incense abomination Nor did God this require of them they being Sodoms Nation When they spread forth their hands to God he fast did close his eyes And though they many Prayers made God did them all despise Their New Moons and their solemn Feasts Assemblies like a flood The Lord had no regard to ' cause their hands were full of Blood It was Jerusalem also that did the Prophets kill And stoned those to them were sent and with blood did fulfil And though they said they would not be partakers with their Fathers In this same bloody Tragedy yet Saints blood they still gather But desolate there House is left Gods Glory from it 's gone For that they have contemnd the Sun which on their Moon hath shone Wherefore they shall not henceforth see the true Light till they say Blessed is he that cometh in the Lord Gods Name alway Object But some of these Objected have against us saying we Have not so much gain-said oppos'd those in our places be So that we cannot choose but think you very flatterers are And as the common Proverb is Your Friends at Court you spare For that it hath observed been the men most godly were Their Congregations you did haunt and ' gainst them rave and tear As then so now those that are bad ' gainst them no word doth spring But those that zealous were and good you made their Churches ring So that we cannot but suppose the Bottom doth design Some Machavillian Policy to be acted in time And if that this be nothing so why do you not still go Into those great Assemblies now the Reason let us know Answer For Answer hereunto I say What man is there so mad To spend his time in the threshing of Bushes They 'r as bad For if one would go vilifie the worst of men there 's nought In them to use the Proverb old that worth a Rush is thought Or who is he that will look for Grapes on the thorny Twiggs Or is there any one that doth of Thistles gather Figgs So that they have no cause to say That we against them were When as that we a threshing went we did not rave or tear For certainly you may suppose we did judge there was Corn Which prompted us to come and thresh and winnow in your Barn And if the grain it did cling fast the chaffe and straw unto The Threshers do not discommend tho they did it undo And though at first the best Corn's made out of the Straw to spring Yet do not you the Thresher blame if it to th' rest they fling For good full Corn it doth rejoyce when Threshers come thereto ' Cause then it knows it shall be put Gods own will for to do And though it be but Oxen which this Corn out do tread Yet by the same they food must have and not be muzzelled It is because Corn's hard and tough that Instruments made be With sharp hard Teeth because plain Tools from the Straw can't it free So those that good and godly were we did them not contemn But what was done was Gods visit did you to us commend For you were counted the lost Sheep of the House Israel Therefore count us not Enemies because Gods Truth we tell And by enquiry you did find of Gods Message worthy Though still we see you hardned be and us reproach daily In the time of Elias though there Widows were a many He to Sareptha's Widow 's sent of others not to any Also in Israel there was much Leprosie on man Yet none at all were cleansed but Naaman the Syrian So that if God did send to cleanse you of your Leprosie Then charge not the Messenger with Machivel-Policy Nor with the Prophet do find fault that doth preserve your store When in great Famine that you were he shew'd you where was more Moreover you may see those men