herein that when thou gavest an Alarm to Oxford Wallingford Banbury or any other of the Kings Quarters whether thou didst not as well therein mind thy Friends of their Duties as well as thou didst desire to put the Kings Friends to hardship and upon Difficulties And finding so much cause for it as I do occasioned partly by the Rigour of others in places of Authority in other parts as well as by thy cruelty to those our Friends who are as good Friends to Kings Charles as those with such Eagerness thou didst formerly put to such hardship Imprison and hang up I have I say good reason upon this account to say what I have said And if thou seem to take Exceptions at my saying we are as good Friends to King Charles as those thou so dealt withall To this I shall answer and let thee know that thou art a far greater Enemy to King Charles the Second herein then thou wast to his Father King Charles the First King Charles the Second and the Duke of York in thy so hastily hanging up and making such Havock of his Friends at Abington or else where But to speak in the Language of David though in another case 1 Chron. 21. 17. As for these poor Sheep what have they done Pick and chuse take the Offenders if thou findest them such and hang them up if thou judgeâ—â— meet but 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Suffer for nor with the Guilty nor the peaceable with the violent I say again that thou didst never do the King nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greater Myschief in the height of all thy fury against them and their Friends then thou doest King Charles the Second 〈…〉 God 's People their Liberty when they should 〈◊〉 their several and respective Meetings praying to the Lord yea and crying mightily to the great Iehovah for his assistance and help to be showred down upon him that as he hath given him such a Benefit as to enjoy himself again in this Land of his Nativity that so God would enable him to make sutable Returns for such Benefits bestowed considering the great Danger of the neglect of it that will redound both to him and his people as I shewed him in my Fannaticks Mite cast into the Kings Treasury as in the whole discourse of it is evident and not onely so but also to pray for the great Council that are now going to Sit that God would blesse it both to the King and his People and that what they do they might be directed by the Lord so as that they might be a Blessing both to the King and his People to the setting a period to these Oppressions that are upon the Free-born People of England who several of them have been and are Imprisoned without any Just and Legal Cause and that the Oppressor might cease out of the Land and that there might be no more leading into Captivity and that complaining in our Streets might have an End that the Alarm of War and the sound of the Trumpet might be banished our borders that so the People of the Land might beat their Swords into Plow-shares and their Speares into Pruning-hooks that all may act out of a Principle of peace with them who some of them onely are Fighting the good fight of Faith that so they may lay hold of Eternal Life the Weapons of whose warfare are not Carnal 2 Cor. 10. 4. That they in their Meetings might also Pray for their Enemies and them that hate them and despitefully use them and for thy Self O Richard Brown that God would shew thee what thou art now doing that the Lord Christ would cause thee to hear a Word from Heaven saying Richard Richard why persecutest thou me I am Iesus whom thou Persecutest O what Benefit would this be O Richard Brown to thy poor Soul I say again what a Benefit would it be to thy poor lean languishing sick Soul to find thy Self to become a Preaching Paul of a Persecuting Saul Didst thou but know the Efficacy of the servent Prayer of a Righteous Man though poor though mean though despica ble in the Eye of the world though unlearned as to Humane Learning yet a Prayer of such a man accompanied with Faith and made to the Lord in the Name of Jesus Christ by the help of his own Spirit that helps our Infirmities that Spirit that is from the Lord and knowes the Mind of the Lord that makes Intercessions to the Lord with Sighs and groans that cannot be uttered and he that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the minde of the Spirit because he maketh Intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Rom. 8. 26 27. And now O Richard Brown consider with thy self seriously what harm such a Prayer would do thee the King or his People nay consider with thy self and that seriously too whether thou dost not do evilly in what thou doest do in that thou blockest up the Meetings of Gods People such as thou hast nothing at all against in the least but as to the matter of their God I say again and again yea and I could wish with all my Soul that I had but such a voyce as that I could but speak it so as that thy Soul might be truly sensible of it that we are some of us an Innocent harmless People such whom thou nor any man as to actions of violence or any manner of ill will either to the King or his People in the least unless it be for wishing and desiring the same thing to King Charles the second thy Self and all his Subjects as once our aged Brother Paul did to King Agrippa Acts 26. 29. I would to God that not onely King Charles and thou O Richard Brown but all that are Englands Subjects this day were altogether as to my Principles both to God and man as I am And now O Mayor I would have thee seriously to consider what my End intended in this my Giving thee this Alarm is and if thou doest not know as I fear thou doest not in the singleness of my soul I shall let thee know it is not for any Revenge I bear thee for God is my witness I lie not I do it not for any such End but that if possible thou mightst make a right Improvement of it and that thou mightst for the time to come even quit thy Self like a Man yea that thou quit thy Self as thou pretendest thy Self as a Christian that so thou wouldst in the Spirit of Love Meekness and Moderation if thou hast it instruct persons that are out of the way and not to cause them to say of thee as the Indians said of the Spaniards that were once so cruel to them That if a Spaniard went to Heaven they did not desire to come there Yea I say I shall let thee know that as the Lord Christ intendeth not a destruction to that Soul that he requireth his Church should be delivered up unto Satan but that it should be for the
A Fannaticks Alarm Given to the MAYOR IN HIS QUARTERS By one of the Sons of Zion become BOANERGES To Thunder out the Judgements of God against Oppression and Oppressors Together with some Flashings of Pure Gospel-Lightnings really intended for the enlightning the Eyes of the Understanding even to the beholding of Him who is Invisible By HENRY ADIS a Baptized Believer undergoing the Name of a Free-willer and also most ignomineously by the tongue of Infamy called a Fannatick or a mad man Wo to the Bloody City Nahum 3. 1. For they professe that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate Tit. 1. 16. For I have seen Violence and Strife in the City Psal. 55. 9. For they eat the Bread of Wickednesse and drink the Wine of Violence Prov. 4. 17. LONDON Printed for the Author an Upholâ—ster living in Princes Street near Covent-Garden 1661. A Fannaticks Alarm Given to the MAYOR IN HIS QUARTERS By one of the Sons of Sion become BOANERGES O Earth Earth Earth Hear the Word of the Lord Ier. 22. 29. To Thee O Richard Brown I speak in the Words of the great Iehovah given in into his Servants and Prophets by his Eternal Spirit by vertue whereof thus saith the wisest of men The Merciful man doth good to his own Soul but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh O man consider thy wayes what hath been thy Work for these many years last past What good didst thou do to thine own Soul in thy mercy thou shewedst to the Kings Friends at Abington Were not thy tender mercies there the mercies of the wicked even meer cruelty Prov. 11. 17. And now the Tide is turn'd art thou ready to say of thine own Violent Actings as once old Iacob did of Simeon and Levies cruel dealings against the Shechamites Gen. 49. 7. Cursed be mine anger for it was fierce and my wrath for it was cruel Or rather art thou not going about to plaister up that old inveterate malignant and festred Sore with a far worse Plaister than was the Sword that made that Wound So that it may be said to Thee in the words of the Prophet Ier. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots no more canst thou do good that hast been accustomed to do evil Art not thou now with double and triple diligence breathing out Threatnings and Slaughter Saul-like against the Church of God as if they had been or at present were the Kings greatest Enemies but hadst thou ever been a Scholar in Christs School and hadst been tutored by his Usher that Holy Spirit of Truth whose Fruit is Love Ioy Peace Long-suffering Gentlenesse and Goodnesse Meeknesse and Temperance Thou wouldest then have taken out a far easier Lesson than Cruelty Violence Malice and Oppression and wouldest also have experimentally known that Christs Laws teach the best Loyalty to Earthly Princes and the purest Love to our very Enemies And now I speak of Love give me leave O Richard Brown to speak some few words in love to Thee who appearest by thy violent Actings to be a bitter Enemy to King Iesus in persecuting him in his Members and therein pretendest thy self to be a great Friend to King Charles the contrary whereof I hope will be manifested hereafter in this discourse in its due place In the mean time in love I shall let thee know my End of this my Alarm that so I might prove my Thundering to be natural consisting as well of Lightning if possible to the enlightning the eyes of thy understanding as well as to shew Thee the Judgements of God against thy Violent and Inhumane Dealings to which purpose I am at this time come to beat up thy Quarters and in Christian Love to deal with Thee and to speak after the manner of men like a Consciencious Lawyer to lay before Thee the worst of thy Case like an Honest Physitian to shew the True state of thy Body like a careful Chyrurgian to search thy noysome and festred Ulcers to the quick and with that charitable Samaritan Luke 10. 34. pour in Wine and Oyl that thy Wound may be both searched and supled that so if possible thy Soul may be saved in the day of the Lord. And herein I shall follow the example of the Lord himself Isa 1. who that he might the better perswade Israel to a thorow Reformation and a perfect Return to him his God he first layes before him the evil of his wayes telling him as I by his assistance in his words shall tell Thee That from the Crown of thy Head to the Sole of thy Foot there is no whole part in Thee thy Head is Sick and thy Heart is Faint thy Hands are full of Blood Therefore Wash thee make thee Clean put away the evil of thy Doings cease to do Evil learn to do Well seek Iudgement relieve the Oppressed Iudge the Fatherless and plead for the Widdows keep men no longer in thy cruel Custody to make so many Fatherless and Widdows as it is at this day in keeping those many poor Innocent harmlesse Baptists and others under restraint in doing which thy danger therein I shall lay down before Thee by Thundring out the Iudgements of God against such Violent and Oppressing Actors that so as in a Glass thou mayest clearly read thy self both what thou art and what thou shalt be or what will hecome of Thee And then give thee in some Clear Bright and Glorious Flashes of Pure Gospel Lightning to enlighten thy Inward Man in order to thy Recovery out of this thy Miserable Poor Blind Naked and Despicable Condition even to the Translating thee out of the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Gods Dear Son unless thou beest wanting to thy self In order whereunto I shall once more cry out and say O Earth Earth Earth Hear the Word of the Lord for thus saith the Lord by his Prophet Isa. 33. 1. Wo unto Thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled that dealest Treacherously and they dealt not Treacherously with Thee when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled and when thou shall make an end to deal Treacherously they shall deal Treacherously with Thee For God is a just God and many times dealeth with the Sons of men by the Law of Retaliation for Adoni-bezek said Threescore and ten Kings having their Thumbs and their great Toes cut off gathered their meat under my Table as I have done so God hath done to me Judges 1. 7. And Nathan said unto Divid Seeing thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the Sword of the Children of Ammon Therefore the Sword shall never depart from thy House 2 Sam. 12. 9. So also saith Samuel to Agag King of the Amalakites 1 Sam. 15. 33. As thy Sword hath made women Childless so shall thy Mother be Childless among women and Samuel liewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal Therefore Wo unto them that decree
again again and again but we see the Conclusion is a Prison a Dungeon but this I am confident of that he that fitteth in the Heavens doth laugh such violent Actions to scorn and the Actors of such Oppressions he will have them in Derision yea I say again the Lord will have them in Derision for so saith the Lord by the Mouth of a King Psal. 2. 1. c. Why do the Heathen rage and the People Imagine a vain thing the Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their Bonds asunder and cast away their Cords from us But in the midst of all these Contrivances as in Belshazzars case Dan 5. 5. there is a Hand-writing in the way that will cause some Trouble the which I cannot but declare and it is no more but the words of the Text for saith the Spirit of the Lord in vers 4. He that sitteth in the Heavens shall Laugh and who can hinder him yea the Lord shall have them in Derision and who shall gain-say it But give me leave in Christian Love to go on to give this Caution in the words of the same Man of God in v. 10. Be wise therefore O ye Kings be Instructed yea Iudges of the Earth ye Iudges before whom the peaceable People of God often in your Circuits are Haled And you Iudges of the Earth that are to Seal Decrees against them I say again take good heed in Gods fear what ye do to them for saith the Prophet to the People of God and that to their great comfort Zach. 2 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his Eye a tender place a choice thing yea they are his Sons and Daughters 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. His Iewels Mal. 2. 17. His choice ones that shall be his such as he himself will spare as a man spareth his own son that serveth him And if you will not spare them look to it the Lord will have you in Derision the Lord will Laugh you to scorn O then be instructed ye Judges of the Earth for ye judge not for man but for the Lord And will you not spare the peaceable Sons and Daughters of God that he would have spared If King Charles should say to you Spare such or such a man that comes before you would you dare to Condemn and Execute him How dare you then Arraign Iudge and Condemn to Prisons and strong holds an Dungeons the Sons and Daughters of the great God who are so near and dear to him and such of whom the Lord Christ saith He that receiveth you receiveth me Mat. 10. 40. And in as much as ye did it not to one of these littles ones ye did it not unto me Mat. 25. 45. And Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9. 4. Therefore upon the Seat of Iudgement Remember Mercy for he shall have Iudgement without Mercy that hrth shewed no Mercy Jam. 2. 13. I would not here be mistaken I do not plead with you Iudges that you should pervert Judgement far be it from me so to do but if ye find a Baptist such as I am now pleading for a Malefactor let my Tongue cleave to the Roof of my Mouth or my Pen fall out of my hand if ever I either speak or write in Vindication of any or of my Self if found in the way of evil-doing But if after the way which you call Heresie I or any are found worshipping the God of our Fathers I say again and again I hope I shall by Divine assistance plead and write if possible And herein I would have you all to take that safe Counsel and good Advice of one of your Brethren a Doctor of the Law Acts 5. 34. who said vers 38. Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this Counsel or this Work be of man it will come to nothing but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest ye be found fighting against God And it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God Heb. 10. 31. For our God or the God of the Baptized People is a consuming fire Use Moderation therefore I forewarn you lest the fire of this God fall suddenly upon you as once it did upon Sodom and Gomorrah and the Neighbouring Cities for their abominations Be wise therefore O ye Kings be Instructed ye Iudges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce before him with trembling Kisse the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled ye a but a little Blessed yea I say again Blessed are all they that trust in him Psal. 2. 10 c. O then I beseech you in Gods fear have a care both Prince and People what ye do in shutting up the peaceable Meetings of the quiet People of God such as would according to the requirement of the Lord do Gods Work in Gods way they would not neglect the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some is but would Exhort one another daily whilst it is called to day who according to the Requirement of the Lord by his Apostle 1 Tim. 2. 1. would first of all make Prayers Supplications Intercessions and giving of Thanks for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority for King Charles and all his Courtiers for Mayor Brown and all his Citizens And for Iustices of Peace in all Cities Corporations Towns and Borroughs with all their Gentry Citizens Manufactures Yeoman and Rusticks that God would open the eyes of their understandings so as that they might see what they are a doing and how they on all hands are rendring to God for all his Benefits bestowed upon them in making and in so Eagerly prosecuting that Proclamation to shut up those peaceable quiet harmless and In-offensive Meetings of Gods People to the hindring as much as in them lyeth their Prayers from Ascending up to God and his Blessing from Descending upon them in which however they have and shall manifest themselves to be our Enemies yet I shall let them know that notwithstanding their thus using us we dare not neglect our Duties in praying for them for that is the Requirement of our Lord and Master King Iesus who as he saith Swear not at all Mat. 5 34. so also he saith vers 44. Love your Enemies Blesse them that curse you do good to them that hate you and Pray for them that despitefully use you And for my own part I dare no more omit the doing of the One than I dare yield to the acting of the other And therefore O Richard Brown I shall let thee know that get me into thy Clutches when thou wilt and get a Commission to offer me up as soon as thou canst yet know that in the words of my Brother Stephen he who first taught Gods People how and in what manner to Suffer Acts 7. 60. I shall in his words say
Fannaticks Testimony against Swearing I say shew your selves as great Enemies to me as you will my Resolution is and God assisting me ever shall be according to the Requirement of King Iesus to Love You though you be mine Enemies and as much as in me lieth to do Good to You though ye Hate Me Yea and the Best Good too yea and as much as in me lieth to bring you to that Chiefest Good to that One Thing Necessary and also earnestly to Pray for You though you Despitefully use Me And this is the way by which I shall evidence my self to be a Child of that Father who sent his Son to Die for Thee for Me and for All the Sons and Daughters of Adam A Parley AND now O Richard Brown before I Retreat from thy Quarters I shall sound thee a PARLEY although I may say to my self and the Peaceable People of God as once Hezekiah said to Israel of old 2 Chron. 32. 28. We need not be dismayed notwithstanding all the Rude Multitude that is with thee For with Thee is an Arme of Flesh but with Us is the Lord our God to Fight our Battels for us Though we are on the Strongest side and have the Best places of Defence For the Name of the Lord is a Strong Tower the Righteous flee to it and are safe Prov. 18. 10. And they that trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion that cannot be Moved but Abideth for Ever Psal. 1. 25. Yea when Sinners in Zion are Afraid and when Fearfulness shall Surprise the Hypocrite then He that walketh Righteously and speaketh Uprightly Isa. 33. 14 c. then He that despiseth the Gain of Oppression He that shaketh his hands from taking of Bribes He that stoppeth his Ears from hearing of Blood that shutteth his Eyes from seeing of Evil as do many of the Peaceable Ones amongst the Baptists He shall dwell on High his Place of Defence shall be the Munition of Rocks Bread shall be given him yea that Bread of Life that once came down from Heaven his Waters shall not fail for he shall drink freely of the Waters of Life Revel 22. 17. I say again though we are of the Strongest side yet seeing thou hast some of the Souldiers belonging to the Captain of our Salvation in thy Custody I shall desire if thou shalt think fit to come to a PERSONAL TREATY with thee Provided that thou wilt allow me but the Law of Arms to go and come Freely and without Interruption during that Treaty And I then question not but in a very short time by the Help of the Spirit of Peace we shall conclude of such a Sound Lasting Firme League and Covenant that will prove like the Law of the Medes and Persians which altereth not For I am verily perswaded and that from mine own former Condition that God hath yet some other thing to do by thee or upon thee So that if thou do what thou doest against Gods People singly and alone for Gods glory thy Judgement not yet being rightly Informed I do really believe that thou shalt yet be an Instrument in the hand of God of much Glory to him as once was thy Brother Saul and my Brother Paul Who what he did he did it out of Zeal to God and in his Ignorance and Unbelief and therefore he obtained Mercy as he saith himself Phil. 3. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 13 16. But if thou hast any other end in what thou doest Thou mayest go on and please thy Fancy if thou wilt and fulfil thy Lust if thou pleasest but thou shalt miss of thy End to attain Glory if that be thy End For if Gods Glory the Good of thine own Soul and the Benefit of Others be not thine End then thy End to Eternity will be but Miserable For God made Thee and I and All Men for his own Glory in producing of which he hath promised us Glory But if God be not Glorified by us he will be Glorified upon us For God will not want his great End Therefore O Richard Brown be perswaded in Gods Fear and as thou tenderest the Eternal good benefit and welfare of thine own Soul to consider thy End and thy End thy End what it is in doing what thou doest do and thy End what it will be if thou yet continuest doing what thou hitherto hast done And if thou shalt be willing to such a Treaty possibly it may be that which experimentally I have known with others may tend to thy Information in order to thy Reformation that so thou mayest be wrought up to a Conformity to the Will and Mind of God when thou shalt be Transformed into the Likeness of Gods dear Son that so thou mayest be translated into his Kingdom of Grace here in order to thy Reigning with him in Glory hereafter And this O Richard Brown the Searcher of all hearts knoweth is my chief and ultimate End in this my Alarm even thy souls good to Eternity But if thou shalt refuse to answer my Desire in this my Parley but wilt still go on in thy Acts of Violence and Oppression I shall without Violence or the least force of Carnal Weapon make a Peaceable Retreat and Retire into my Closet where my Soul shall weep in secret for thee and al Tyrannical Oppressors and shall cry out in the Words of Him who went up and down doing Good who left Himself as a Pattern for us to walk by Who said of them that Crucified Him Father forgive them they know not what they do THE END
both of him that shall give out such a Commission and thee that shalt gain it of him that shall Execute it and of all that shall rejoyce at it and consent to it yea for all be they High be they Low be they Rich be they Poor be they Young be they Old be they Free be they Bound King or Subjects I say in the words and I hope in the Spirit of Truth with my Brother Stephen I shall Pray The Lord lay not this sin to their charge and in the words of him that was not ashamed to call his Congregation Heb. 2. 10. nor his Disciples Brethren Sisters and Mothers Mat. 12. 49 50. I say in his words I hope by the help of his Spirit I shall cry out and say Father forgive them they know not what they do Luke 23. 34. For this is a day in which we must expect nothing lesse but Mockings Iearings Scoffings and Deridings Buffettings Banishments and Imprisonments with Torturings and cruel Deaths for I perceive by the Hatred Malice and Malignity of the generality of the Sons and Daughters of Men that it must fare with us in our Crooked and Adulterous Generation as with the Flock of God gone before yea and with our Master himself who was said to have a Devil John 10. 20. And at length Away with him Crucifie him Crucifie him Mat. 27. 22. The Apostles Peter and Paul were both put to death in the last year of the Emperour Nero Paul was Beheaded and Peter was Crucified with his head downwards saith Eusebius Pamphilius in his third Book the first Chapter O Friends Consider what are your Fears what are your Doubts Did ye not run well in a Sun-shiny day who did binder you you lay all your Confidence in an Arm of Flesh and is it vanished with it Shall so many of us come out of Aegypt with Israel of old And shall our Carkastes fall thus as did theirs in the Way Shall but some few Calebs and Ioshuahs enter into Canaans Glory of the old Stock Numb 14. 22 23 24. What need we Fear are not all our Hairs numbred Can the Two Witnesses be Slain till the Forty and Two Moneths be expired and their Prophesies fulfilled Doth not the Nation ring of your Apostacy in this Cloudy Day Do not that People called Quakers upbraid us with your backslidings in one County and another a third and more O Friends It is the burthen of my Soul to hear such Actings as I hear and that my rejoycing towards you and on your behalfs in my Fannaticks Letter in page 5. c. is to so little purpose I well hoped it might have proved an Instrument in Gods Hand of much good unto you but I fear it was much slighted and undervalued because it dropped not from a tall Cedar but sprung up from so mean and low a shrub But to such Souls I must say in the Words of the Prophet Isa. 40. 28 c. Hast thou not known Hast thou not considered Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creatour of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary There is no searching of his Understanding He giveth power to the faint and to him that hath no might he encreaseth strength Even the Youths shall faint and the Young men shall utterly fail But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with Wings of Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint for of a Truth God is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth Him and worketh Righteousnesse is accepted of him Acts 10. 35. And now why should I much wonder to see such Apostatizing times when the Lord by his Servant telleth us That day shall not come except there come a falling away first at whose coming he himself putteth it to the Question Whether he shall find Faith on the Earth Luke 18. 8. And this is the use that through mercy I make of these times I see hereby my Saviour was a True Prophet And this is a Confirmation to me that I am in the Truth in which time I also see and feel such Halings before Magistrates to Prison in this time when Iniquity doth so much abound And Secondly This leads me out of my self to stand by the strength of Him that is Mighty by whose strength onely I have yet stood and still hope to stand It was by his strength that I lived and survived the dampnesse of the Dungeon void of Light or Air those ten Weeks together It was by his help that our Consciences were kept undefiled and by his help it was that way was made for us in the Hearts of the greatest of the Nation to Release us without Fees It is by the help of Iosephs God that was with him in the Prison Gen. 39. that it was so well with us as it was It was by the help of Daniels God that sent his Angel to shut the Mouths of the Lions that we were preserved from harm amongst a company of rude people Felons and others it was by the help of the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego that we came out of our Dungeon without harm And by the help of him that walked with them in the fiery Furnace it was that we were constantly refreshed comforted and supported it was by the help of him that turned again the Captivity of Iob that we were brought again from our Captivity it was by the help of him who inabled David to break through a Troop and to leap over a Wall that we are at present Escaped from the Guards of Souldiers that watched our Gates night and day it was by the help of him who sent his Angel to strike off Peters Chains and to open the Prison-doors that we were inlarged it was by help of him whose grace is sufficient for poor Souls that we were supported in our Spirits Yea it was by the good will of him that burned in the Bush that our Zeal for the Cause of Christ was and still is continued Oh then let me beg you in Gods Fear not to droop in this Cloudy day for there is no Crown but for the over-commer no Reaping but for him that doth not faint Oh then let the hands hanging down and the feeble knees be strengthened and held up and look up and lift your heads for your Redemption draweth nigh the day of Jesus is at hand the Kingdom of God is even at the door for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry and the Iust must live by Faith And now Rich. Brown I would have thee know that though I speak to my Brethren in this City Nation in some part of my Discourse yet it is not besides my business for thou well knowest that it is the nature of an Alarm so to do to Rouse Friends as well as Enemies I shall Appeal to thine own Practice