be mercifull to you and heal your backslidings and love you freely and blot out your transgressions for his names sake which if you will have none of his counsel but it rejects as you have done and still commits this filthy and abominable thing in the land the Priests to teach for hire and the Prophets to divine for mony which is the practice of your teachers you have heaped up to your selves according to your lusts and love to have it so then your portion you must own what the Lord hath spoken he will perform and you and your teachers shall reap the fruit of your doings according as is declared and in that dâ—y I shall be remembred when you lye upon the bed of sorrow who is clear of all your blood who perish through your disobedience in that I have not hid the counsel of God from neither Rulers Priests nor People And to the light of Christ in all your conscieâ—ces I clear my conâ—cience in the presence of the living pure and dreadful God who will perform according to his words and the condemnation of the evil doers slâ—mbers not the Lord will cleanse the Land of you and not any that rejects Christ the corner stone shall rule in England for the Lord will make it the glory of all the Nations of the world notwithstanding all that oppose him his own work he will carry on in it by the arm of his mighty power will he exalt Christ Jesus to be King in it to rule the people according to his righteous Law and all that will not his Lawes obey and their Crowns lay down at his feet and to him their knee bow in perfect obedience to his righteous law written in the heart and conscience he will you break in pieces with his rod of Iron and dash in sunder like a potters vessel and not any shall escape that doth evil and bring the curse upon the earth which the Lord is making as the garden of Eden the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it he that can receive it let him and an ear to hear let him hear And whether you people in England hear or forbear in your consciences I shall be for ever manifest and you shall eternally witnesse the truth I have declared is to you the word of the Lord God the day will declare it W. D. FINIS 〈…〉 Psal. 51 5. Isa. 43.7 Mat. 12.36 2 Cor. 5.10 Isa. 43.7 Isa. 10.15 Isa. 43.7 Isa. 43.7 Luke 17.20 Gen. â—3 24 Rev. 20.11 12. Luke 17.20 Acts 10.30 Deu. 10.21 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.24 Heb. 22.21 Gal. â— 16 Heb. 22.21 Luke 17. â—6 Psal. 66.16 Rom. 7.24 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.24 Psal. 51.3 1 Cor. 11.28 29. Iohn 15.27 Luke 22.2 Ephes. 4 30. 1 Cor. 10.16 17. Phil. 3.15 Eph. 5.11 1 Iohn 1.6 Eph. 5.13 Iames 5.3 Eph. 5 6. Ier. 23.32 Luke 17 20. Deut. 30.14 Isa. 30. â— Iob 33. from 19. to 22. Ier. 5.25 Isa. 59.2 Luke 17.20 Ezek. 34.6 Acts 2.37 2 Cor. 13 5â— Luke 7.20 Iudg 5.23 1 Cor. 13.3 Iohn 22.2 Iohn 5.39 Luke 1. â— Luke 2 10 11. Luke 17.0 Micah 6.6.7 8 9. Luke 17.10 Gen. 3.34 Luke 17.20 Isa. 54.13 2 Pet. 1.19 Iohn 18.36 Maâ— 26â— 52 53. Luke 17. â—â— 2 Cor. 10.4 5 Mat. 26 53. Luke 17.20 Rev. 19.15 Mat. 26 52. Isa. 26.8 Gen. 4 14. Rom 9.13 Exod. 9. Ephes. 25.8.9 Ionah 2.2 Isa. 9.6 â—7 Lam. 3.26 Iohn 5.35 Mat. 5.6 Eph. 2.23 Mat. â—4 27 Iohn 5.25 Eph. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.3 Isa. 55 3. Rom. 5 14. Mat. 11.13 and 12. Rev. 19.15 Mat. 2.13 Rev. 1 â— 7 8 9. Rev. 11.10 Mat. 24.15 Dan. 11.31 Rom. 7.19 â—0 2â— 13 24. 2 Cor. 12.9 Rom. 7.24 Rev. 11.11 Verse 19. Rev. 17.5 Rev. 18.3 4 5 6 7 8. 2 Thes. 1.7.8 Isa. 4.4 Rom 8 2. Rev. 7.14 Rev. 22.14 Rev. 21.27 Mat. 5.6 Rev. 22.2.3 5â— Iohn 3.3 Rev. 20. Iohn 6.45 Isa. 54.13 Mat. 25.15 Iohn 1.9 Eph. 5.13 Titus 2.11 Ioh. 17.3 Iohn 14.6 Iohn 5.89 Iob. 32.8 Rev. 5.3 4 5. Eph. 1.13 Isa. 8.16 Ier. 31.33.34 Ezek. 36.24 25 26 27 28. Heb. 8.10 11 12. Isa. 54 13. Rev. 19.1 Rev. 5.13 Gal. 1.15.16 Rev. 7.14 Iohn 5.19 Mat. 6.22 Rev. 14.6 Isa. 53.12 Acts 24.14
THE DISCOVERY Of the great enmity of the Serpent against the seed of the Woman which witnesseth against him where he rules both in Rulers Priests and People Whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power wherein he is sending his Sons and Dâ—ughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word WHICH Discovereth the state of England who according to her own lusts hath heaped up Teachers to her self that hath spoken smooth things to her calling her the beautifull Church and Spouse of Christ but in the day of tryall she is found in enmity to Christ in his appearance in his children and to be in the estate deluded from the spirit of truth recorded in 2 Tim. 4.2.3 Which cannot indure sound Doctrine having itching eares and turns them away from the truth to fables and now are Englands Teachers tryed she hath leaped up to her self and their doctrine proved and their Ministery made manifest in the great enmity they manifest against Christ in persecuting the bodies of his Saints them to destroy whom he hath sent to preach freely his eternal Word for which they are stoned beaten and imprisoned and many of Englands Teachers whom she upholds stirs up the people so to doe Being deceived not regarding what is spoken that neither fornicator nor idolator nor a adulterer nor effeminate nor abuser of themselves with mankind nor covetous nor drunkards nor revellers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. A true testimony of him the world knows by name William Deusbery and in scorn calls Quaker who hath been by them imprisoned in York Darby Leicester and Northampton where he is now kept in the common Goal for the word of God and testimony of Iâ—sus Châ—ist Also his Call to the Ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the Spirit of God and his mighty power destroying with the flaming sword the disobedient that would not stand in his counsell and causing the soul to submit to his counsel the light that comes from Christ in it to wait on him to open the seales of the Book and make known the mystery of eternall life to the soul the Scripture testâ—fieâ—h is in Christ the truth of it to know as it is in Iesus The word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power from the highest to the lowest to see the peace be kept and to judg the cause of the People with righteous judgement VVith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appâ—arance and to slight the day of your visitation to your own destruction From the common Goal in Northampton the 25. day of the 4. month 1655. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the VVest end of Pauâ—s 1655. The Discovery of the great enmity of the Serpent against the seed of the woman which witnesse against him where he rules both in Ruler Priest and People Oh people in England AM I become your enemy because I tell you the truth and deales plainly with you in declaring the minde of the Lord unto you which in the eternal riches of his love he hath made known unto me by the word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ for which word and testimony I suffer outward bonds and persecutions as my Lord and Master did who was called a blasphemer Belzebub the Prince of Devils by the High Priests who cryed to the unjust Magistrates to deliver him up into their hands that their persecuting murthering spirits that thirsted after his blood might be satisfied which the unjust men in Authority to doe them a pleasure in satisfying their wills abused their power and delivered him up and though they proved not any thing against him they put him to death calling him a blasphemer and he sealed his testimony with his blood And all my holy Brethren Prophets and Apostles were called Blasphemers Hereticks Seducers and Deluders by the false Prophets High-Priests and Pharisees then who professed the name of God in words but denyed him in their practises and persecuted his children who were guided by his word under the names formerly written as I and my brethren is now persecuted by the same generation which professe God and Christ in words but denying him in their practises living in pride and pleasures envy and muâ—der every way persecuting and seeking to destroy the bodies of the Saints of the most high God where the righteous seed is raised up which witnesseth against their unrighteous practises and discovers them in their secret hypocrisie which is hid under their voluntary humility which causeth them to appear what they are and manifests what was hid in their hearts under their faire coverings of outward formes and profession of Religion which they now manifest forth by their fruit whose children they are in obedience to their father the Devil who was a persecuter and a murtherer from the beginning whose works they now doe that professe Christ in words but denies to be guided by his spirit for his spirit is no persecuter and so are they made manifest in what they doe to all that have eyes to see that they are strangers to Christ while they continue in Cains nature persecuting the righteous seed without a cause as he did and doth in this Nation both in the North of it and in other Prisons in severall places of it there hath been cast into them the Saints and Children of the most high God for obeying his will in witnessing forth his eternall Word that he hath made manifest in them And no breach of any Nationall Law proved against them but a Popish Law made in Queen Maries Reigne which some hath suffered under and many others of the Saints and Children of the most high God they have persecuted and cast into prisons and not the breach of any Nationall proved against them but in the pride and envy of their hearts doe they persecute the innocent to satisfie their own wills as I am a witnesse against them who have persecuted me and cast me into prison under the name of a Seducer as they say for the Seducing of the people of this nation and for suspition of Blasphemy and breaking of the publick peace in dispersing principles contrary to the truth of the Gospel and peace of the Nation and not any accuser appeared to my face to prove what they charge against me as is formerly written either by the Law of God or the Law of the Nation but the Serpent in whom he rules hath manifest his enmity against me whom the Lord hath redeemed from the Earth and sent to preach the everlasting Gospell to those that dwell upon the Earth and to witnesse against the wickednesse of the dark world that the deeds thereof are evill for which testimony the world that hates the light that comes from Christ whom they ever persecuted to fulfill the measure of their fathers iniquities hath me
had it transgrest but again â—o prison did mee commit to answer at the Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 day of the first month called March 1654. And three times I was there brought before Matthew Hail who did sit judge of life and death to answer what might be objected against me and the last time I before him was brought Hugh VVindham was with him who then was in commission with to have judged the cause in righteousnesse between me and my accusers and though not any accuser appeared against me to prove mee the transgressor of any Law neither would these that sate to judge my cause any Law to me read that any evidence given in against me was the transgression of but they me committed to prison where I had been amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther so under all these lies and aspertions false accusations I suffer and instead of being cleared of them when I was brought before those that are in Commission to judge with righteous judgement more accusations is laid upon me by them which was done by John Parker at the general Sessions before written and Hugh VVindham at the general Assizes before mentioned which both did accuse me in the open Court before the people that I was a seducer and when I required them to make manifest wherein I did seduce any they would not answer to what then was required and a copie of the ground of the evidence they pretend they have against me they denied to be given me in all places where they have proceeded against me as is formerly written least their woâ—ks of darknesse should come to light and their folly made manifest and truth cleared of the lies and false accusations with which they blind the eyes of many and cause them to stumble at the wayes of truth in speaking evil of the things they know not as is manifest in what is written So for the truth sake I bare testimony of and it to clear from all lies and aspeâ—sions cast upon it which hath caused the simple to stumble at the way of truth and that they no longer be turned aside by the lying spirit who every way seeks to murther and destroy the truth from the earth in persecuting the bodies of the Saints and shutting them up in prison under the names of blasphemers deceivers seducers and disturbers of the peace so make lies their refuge as that persecuting spirit â—ver did in all ages to stop the lying mouth and for the simple sake that desires in the truth of their hearts to know the leadings of the spirit of truth in the way to know the onely true God I here publickly declare to the inhabitants of England and to all that dwell upon the earth what I was in the fallen estate and how the Lord raised me up by the arm of his mighty power and carried me on through the great work of regeneration that all may know the truth I am sent to bear testimony to the consciences of those that dwell upon the earth is not any seducing nor contrary to the truth of the Gospel but is according to the truth as it is in Jesus He that hath an eye to see let him see and â—n ear to hear let him hear The first Birth I Was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity and in that state lived and delighted in pride and pleasures lightnesse and vanity as all doth in that nature untill I were about eight years of age though before that time when I did live in vanity the light in my conscience did witnesse against mee and caused some trouble in me but I departed from the light and so followed the counsell of my own heart that lead mee into vanity to live without the fear of God And about the time when I was eight years of age of my natural birth the word of the Lord came unto me I created thee for my glory an account thou must give to me for all thy words and actions done in the body which word enlightned my heart and opened the book of conscience in me where all was written I had done in the body ever since I was a child or had any remembrance and when I had read my condition how I had lived without God who created me for his glory The word of the Lord then came unto me Shall the axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the staffe should shake it self against him that lifâ—eth it up or as if the staffe should lift up it self as if it were no wood and by the power of the word of the Lord that spoke in me my understanding was enlightned and my conscience bore witness that it was my condition I had lifted up my self against the liviâ—g God in living without his fear who created me to live in obedience to him but I had lived in disobedience to him untill that day so deep sorrow seized upon me and I knew not what to do that I might get acquaintance with the God of my life who created me for his own praise and glory then I ceased from my vain conversation which I had lived in and began to read the Scriptures and books and mourn and pray to a God I knew not where he was but expected him without looking up towards the firmament where my carnal imagination told me he was and as I had heard those the world calls Ministers whom I went to hear whose words did witnesse with my carnal imagination of God they said he was above the skies calling it heaven but I felt the hand of the Lord within me executing justice upon the wicked in me and what way ever I turned to seek him in observations thither the flaming sword turned which was placed against me to keep the way of the tree of life and executed the righteous justice of God upon me so I stood before the Throne of the Lamb reading in my mournfull estate the sentence of condemnation that passed upon me from the glory of his presence and in this condemned estate I continued and through the ignorance where God was what his worship was I strove to satisfie his justice in outward observations imitating what the Saints did sometimes in fasting and prayer which was the practise of Cornelius and others of the Saints of the most high God as I found recorded in the Scripture of Truth But notwithstanding all my strict walking in observations in which I was seeking the Kingdom of God I found him not but the flaming sword cut me down so my sorrow increased for I found none in my condition that I could declare it to Then it pleased the Lord to order my friends in the flesh to put me to keep the sheep where I was retired from company so my mind was kept in my mournfull estate where my great
hath led me through the gates of the City into the new Ierusalem where there is nothing enters that works abomination or makes a lye but what is written in the Lambs book of life where my soul now feeds upon the tree of life which I had so long hungred and thirsted after that stands in the Paradise of God where theâ—e is no more curse nor night but the Lord God and the Lamb is my light and life for ever and ever I witness I am regenerated and born again of the immortal seed and hath pertaked on the first resurrection on whom the second death hath no power And this I declare to all the inhabitants in England and all that dwell upon the earth that God alone is the teacher of his people and hath given to every one a measure of Grace which is the light that comes from Christ that checks and reproves for sin in the secret of the heart and conscience and all that wait in that light which comes from Christ which is the free grâ—ce of God for the power of Jesus Christ to destroy sin and to guide them in obedience to the light so shall they come to know the onely true God and Father of light in Christ Jesus who is the way to him And 〈◊〉 I witnesse to all the sons of men that the knowledge of eternall life I came not to by the letter of the Scripture nor hearing men speak of the name of God I came to the true knowledge of the Scripture and the eternall rest they testify it in Christ by the inspiration of the Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah who alone is found worthy to open the seales of the book and I witnesse none else can for he alone opened the seales of the book in me and sealed it up to my soul by the teâ—timony of his own spirit according to his own promise I will bind up the testimony and seale the Law amongst my Dâ—sciples and I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spirâ—◠〈◊〉 â—heir inward parts and they shall not depart from me neâ—ther shall they need to reach every man his neighbour and every man hâ—s brother for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest for I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesse and their sins and inâ—quâ—ties will I remember no more and all my childâ—en shall be taught of me saith the Lord God and great shall be the peace of my châ—ldren and this here declared the Scriptures witnesse and I witnesse the Scriptures fulfilled in me Praises praâ—ses Halleluâ—ah and eternal praises be unto thee Lord God Almighty who haâ—h taken unto thee thy great power to sit upon thy throne and to the Lamb for evermore It being charged on me my imprisonment to be jâ—st untill I give a reason of the hope of my calling and that I am uâ—willing so to do to stop the lyâ—â—g mouth of the false accuser and to clear the truth of the lies layd on it as before written and in love to the souls of the people that they the truth may know as it is in Jesus Here I have declared the work of the mighty God in revealing his Son in me who led me on my journey through the dark world where I passed through great tribulations as formeâ—ly written until I came to the end of the world over it to rejoyce in the power of my God 1 Cor. 10.11 upon whom the ends of the world are come whom the whole world that lies in wickedness hates and persecutes but to the pure single eye that is not of the world I lay this before which is written that all which it mindes may see the truth I bear testimony of is not any Popish Tenet though I was questioned concerning them at the general Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 dayes of the first month called March 1654. neither is it seducing nor blasphemy nor prejudicial to the truth of the Gospel or peace of the Nation but according to 〈◊〉 truth of the everlasting Gospel and sound peace of the Nation for which testimony I am still kept in bonds in the common Goal in Northampton numbred amongst the transgressors in the low prison with those arrained for fellony and murther waiting in rest and peace till the sufferings of the righteous seed be fulfilled And all you that are enemies to the truth of God persecuting it under the names as formerly written calling the preaching of the truth seducing this I declare and confesse unto you in the presence of God after the way you call seducing dâ— I worship the Lord God of my fathers and witnesse fulfiâ—â—â— what is written in the Law and the Prophets he that can receive me let him W. D. Dear friends whose minds are turned to the effectual light that comes from Christ all mind your own measure and be content in what the Lord hath committed to you with the light judge that which would draw your minds to look forth at others conditions and in impatiency to covet what the Lord haâ—h given to them before it be manifest to you be faithful every one in your own measure and in patience wait in the light for the unlimâ—ted spirit of Christ your life to open the seals of the book and make known unto you the mystery of eternal life which he will daily reveal in you that are faithfull in your own measure to follow the Lord in what he makes manifest to you whom he hath called into his Vinyard at the ninth and eleventh hour be faithfull to the Lord in walking in obedience to him in the light hee will make a short work in the earth for his seed sake and your reward shall be rest and peace in the presence of God in Christ with those that came into the Vinyard the third and sixth hours and laboured the heat of the day God almighty be with you his chosen servants and children and all in your measure keep in his eternall power bold valiant and faithfull unto the end and crown you with eternall glory in Christ one Judge Lord and King God over all blessed for ever Amen To all you that rule â—n England from the highest to the lowest whom the Lord hath betrusted with power to see the peace be kept and to judge the cause of the people He hath given you power theri causes to judge with righteous judgement the evil doers to punish and the righteous set free out of the hands of those that oppresse them This is the word of the Lord God to you THat you lend not your ears to the counsel of your own hearts or to the counsel of any without you that tempts you to draw your mindes from the pure counsel of God which is the light that comes from Christ Jesus and calls on you in your consciences to judge with righteous judgement as
you will eternally answer before the pure powerful dreadfull God take heed of abusing your power he hath betrusted you with in establishing any Law which is contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience as those did whom the Lord drave out and destroyed before you in his wraâ—â—nd overturnd in his fierce displeasure which if you uphold those Lawes they made in their wills or any other which is contrary to the righteous Law of God in the conscience and rule according to them Lawes and exercise the power committed to you to bind the Lawes upon the consciences of the children of the Lord whom he hath chosen out of the world and made his jewels to fear an oath in obedience to the righteous Law which sayeth swear not at all which if you by these unrighteous Lawes take advantage against the righteous seed concerning the Law of their God them to ensnare under your power that you on them may satisfie your wills This I declare to you from the eternall God of Heaven and Earth It is hard for you to kick against the pricks for what is done to his people he takes it as done to himself and better a Milstone were hanged about your neck and you cast into the Sea saith Christ then to offend one of these little ones that beleeveth in his name and obeyes his command who saith swear not at all and now is manifesting his power in his people that all them may know between those that swear and them that fear an oath which if you them that fear an oath oppress this know the Lord God will plead their cause as he did the cause of all his people in all ages and destroyed those that oppressed them as in the time of Pharaoh and in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and in the time of Hamon in the reigne of King Ahasuerus and in the time of King Herod whom he smotein his righteous judgements and consumed him with worms Acts 12.23 for persecuting his people and robbing him of his glory the righteous justice of God he manifested upon the enemies of his people is left upon record you to foâ—ewarn that you touch not his chosen anointed people nor do his Prophets no harm for whose sakes the Kings rebukes and all that oppresse them as is recorded in Scripture of truth and hath been witnessed before your eyes in destroying the Bishops and the King that oppressed the people of God by their power in binding Lawes upon them contrary to the righteous Law of God in their consciences and you Rulers of England who promised to the Lord God if he would deliver those that oppressed his people into your hands and give you power over them you would take away all Laws that burtheâ—ed the consciences of his people and they should have free liberty to worship him in spirit and in truth according to his Law written in their own hearts and according to your desires the Lord appeared while you in his counsell stood and gave all into your power according to the desires ofyour own hearts and now is the time of your tâ—y all wherein the Lord is trying all you this day whom he hath put power into your hands which if you now forget the Lord God who appeared to you when you were little in your own eyes in the day of your distresse and deny to perform your promises you made to the Lord when he delivered you out of the hands of those that sought your lifes but contrary to all your promises abuse your power you are betrusted with to build up again you seemed to destroy which cost the price of so much blood in establishing Lawes which are contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience and by them think to scatter the power of the holy people and to weary out the Saints of the most high God in turning judgement backward and keeping justice a far off that truth falleth in the streets and â—quity cannot enter so he that departeth from evill maketh himself a prey to your wills and the Lord God seeth it and is displeased with you that there is no judgâ—ment for his people therefore to you this is the word of the Lord that abuse your power you are betrusted with in perverting judgement as before written thus saith the Lord God The pit you dig for my people you shall fall into it your selves and my people I will deliver by the arm of my mighty power and according to your deeds I will to you repay and recompence fury and vengeance to you my adversaries and will you sweep away with the beesome of my wrath except you repent and your blood shall be upon your own heads and you shall not escape but come to your end and none shall help you He that hath an ear to hear let him hear And be forewarned now in this day of your visitation wherein the Lord hath to you sent you to forewarn of the evill that is coming upon you that you may speedily to him return and lay your Crowns in the dust at the feet of Jesus Syons King and in his counsel stand which is the light in the conscience that in you witnesseth against every vain thought and wicked imagination and in the light wait his power you to guide to perform your promises and to take away all Lawes contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience that the righteous Law of God may be your guide which is the guide of all the children of God then will the Lord God of Heaven and Earth be with you and with the arm of his mighty power destroy all that plot or rise up against you before whom he will make the unrighteous powers of the earth to shake if you abide faithful in his counsel and wil make you a terrour to the evil doers and a pâ—aise to them that do well and will bring you into the eternall peace and rest he hath prepared for his people but if you reject his counsell and cast his righteous Law behind your backs as you have done and follow the counsel of your own hearts all that have an eye to see read and understand Prov. 29.1 He that hath been often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy and in that day I shall be clear of your blood who in love to your soules hath not hid the counsel of God from you which he hath made known to me that you may be left without excuse in the daâ— of the Lords anger when hee doth perform what he hath spoken Then shall I be remembred whom the world knows by name William Dousbery and by some of you that professes to minister justice cast into prison and there kept in the common Goal in Northampton for the word of God and Testimony of Jesus Christ From the Goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month 1655. O England England over all in
thee I lament who persecutes the Sons and Daughters of the most high God he hath to thee sent thee to forewarn of the evill day that is coming upon thee O That thou in this day of thy visitation did know the things belonging to thy peace which the living God tenders to thee in this day of his mercy wherein he waites on thee to be gracious unto thee and to make thee the glory of all the Nations of the world and in all thy straits for thee appeared and in his mighty power hath destroyed all that did secretly plot and rise up against thee to establish unrighteous Lawes and them bind upon the consciences of those that feaâ—ed the Lord in thee and walked humbly before him according to the measure of light received and now hath he appeared in the day of his mighty power in thee O England to exalt the Kingdom of Christ in the hearts of his Saints and hath sent them to preach his everlasting Gospel in thee to turn the mindes of the people from darknesse to light which comes from Christ in it to waite for his power to guide out of all sin and uncleannesse into union and fellowship with the Father of light which many of you people in England seemed to desire above all things and content to give up your lives to withstand them that did appear to bind any unrighteous law upon you and by it to take advantage against you concerning the Law of God which you professed to love and to delight in your liberty in it more then in your nearest and dearest relation or life or any outward injoyment and all you in that day who were faithfull to the Lord according to the measure of light manifest in you the Lord God did appear for you and in his mighty power hath scattered those that stood up in enmity against you to bind Lawes upon your consciences which is contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the heart and the Lord hath given you power over all those your enemies and now have you free liberty which they cannot take from you to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the desires you seemed to manifest in the day you cryed to the Lord when you were in distresse and now is the Lord come to visite you in his tender mercy and hath sent his Ministers to preach his eternal word freely without money or price in season and out of season to reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine which many of you people in England who promised the Lord to worship him in spirit and in truth now his counsell rejects and turns to the teachers you have heaped up to your selves according to your own lusts who cryes peace peace to you in what you do while you put into their mouths and now is the time come to the fulfilling the Scripture in you who have itching eares and cannot indure sound doctrine but turns from it to fables which if you continue in your carelesse mindes slighting this day of your visitation and not like to retain God in your knowledge God will give you up to reprobate mindes that professe you know God but in works deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate upon whom the Lord will get his glory in his righteous judgements and if the Lord in his everlasting love had not left a seed in thee O England thou with all thy teachers whom thou hast heaped up according to thy own lusts would have become as Sodom but for his own seed sake whom he hath blessed he will do good to the inhabitants of England who stands faithfully in his counsell to be guided by his power and will scatter all those that stand in opposition to his righteous seed Christ whom he is exalting in the hearts of his elect and chosen people in England to rule for ever over all that stand in enmity to him this is the day the mighty God is giving all power unto his son Jesus to whom every knee shall bow and all you proud stubborn self-willed lofty ones that hates the light of Christ in you that witnesses against sin in the secret of the heart and conscience and it rejects and denies to be guided by it but turns to the counsell of your own hearts and the Teachers you have heaped up according to your lusts and with them sits at ease in the flesh and turns the grace of God into wantonness and forgets the loving kindnesse of the Lord who delivered you by the arm of his mighty power when enemies compassed you on every side and gave your lives for a prey when they were nigh unto death and now you abuse your liberty to walk with your teachers according to your lusts and with them commit this filthy and abominable thing in the land the Priests to teach for hire and the Prophets that divine for money and you people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof which day you put afar off and do not regard but that you shall not be ignorant of the mind of the Lord and left without excuse in the mighty day of the Lords anger who hath sent his servants and children early and late to forewarn you of the evill day that is coming upon you if you doe not speedily repent and turn to the Lord but slight this day of your visitation then shall the things now belonging to your peace be hid from your eyes and your end shall be according to the word of the Lord I declare to you thus saith the Loâ—d All these my enemies that will not that I shall rule over them bring them hither and slay them before me and this is your portion you enemies of Christ that hates his counsel as is before written he will you consume with the breath of his mouth and the brightnesse of his coming which will overtake you that sit at ease in the flesh as a theef in the night and in flames of fire will render vengeance on you that disobeys his Gospel and will give to every one of you according to the works done in the body and you shall not escape from Israels Judge Syons King who will all his people deliver and you proud lofty ones under bring by his mighty power to the praise and glory of his righteous justice who alone is worthy God over all blessed for ever Amen Remember you are warned in your life time and prize this day of your visitation while the Lord in patience and long-sufferance waites to be gracious and mercifull to you if you speedily return to his counsell which is the light of Christ in your consciences that shewes you sin and wait in it for his power to lead you to repentance and to cleanse you from sin and in the straight way of self-denyal and the daily crosse you to guide in obedience to the Father of light then will the Lord God