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The warnings of the Lord to the King of England and his Parliament as they were wrote and sent by his servant, George Bishope.
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Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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thy Day the things that belong unto thy Peace It is the Prayer of him who is in due sence of thy Condition and of what is near for the hour is great And so I am clear of thee thus far in the sight of the Lord whose Prosperity I wish George Bishop Bristol the 22th of the 11th Moneth 1662. The Original of which this is a Coppy was delivered into the hand of the King at White Hall by Elizabeth Baily it being wrote and sent upon his Second Declaration for Liberty of Conscience which was after he came from Breda into England To the King and his both Houses of Parliament once more am I moved of the Lord to write and indeed bear with me and let it not seem grievous unto you what I have to say for it is in Love FRIENDS THe Lord hath determined to keep his Throne in the Consciences of Men and whosoever they are that shall seek to put him out there those will the Lord put out and they that endeavour to Justle him there them will he Justle and they shall know that he is The Lord. Therefore my Dear Friends in Bowells of Love I beseech you have not a hand in any such thing lest his wrath break out against you and his fury take hold of you and there be no Remedy For from the Lord God of Hoasts have I received it and whatsoever may come of it as to me for so doing which I leave to the Lord I must be faithful unto you and testifie it yea woe would be unto me if I did it not if you do so so it will be it is the Word of the Lord. Therefore my Dear Friends I again beseech you in the tenderest expression of Love that possible can flow from a heart that is well affected to you whose welfare I desire strike not at the Rock of Ages in this lest he dash you to pieces It is the Word of the Lord. And so I have finished what I have to say to you in the name of the Lord. George Bishope Bristol the 14th of the 1 st Moneth 1662 â— Copies of the Original of this word for word were delivered the King and the Speakers of both Houses written and Sealed by Mary Jones To the King and both Houses of Parliament Thus saith the Lord. MEddle not with my People because of their Conscience to me and Banish them not out of the Nation because of their Conscience for if you do I will send my Plagues upon you and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Written in Obedience to the Lord by his Servant George Bishope Bristol the 25th of the 9th Moneth 1664. The very Day that the next were sent out of Newgate London in order to Banishment the long sore Plague brake out in London over against the House of one of those who that day was sent from Newgate aforesaid into Banishment whose Name is Edward Brush who was sent to Jamaico To the King of England These FRIEND THou goest the wrong way to work and that which in the End will prove thy Ruine Thou shouldst not deal thus with us who are not thine Enemies but in thought and deed desire thy welfare How many Women in a manner art thou making Widowes and their Children Fatherless How art thou shipping them off their Native Country and rendring them as the worst of Men and the most miserable of Mankind who in no other thing are offensive to thee or do transgress thy Lawes then as to their Conscience to God in relation to his Worship who will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and such Worshippers the Father seeks to worship him How art thou going to undo thousands of Families in this Nation because of their Obedience to him who dare not do otherwise lest they should displease him that gives them their Being How art thou rendring thy Dominion Monstrous and thy Rule among men very unreasonable who wilt not do unto other men what thou wouldest be done unto thy self who wouldest not be so done unto as thou dost to others thy self Thou knowest the heart of a Stranger and hast been an Exile thy self Thou knowest what it cost thee and how ill thou tookest it at their hand that thus did to thee though they pretended a Cause wherefore they so did it How comes it to pass that thou hast so soon forgotten thine Old Estate which not long since thou wast so displeased with that thou art putting Innocent Men and thy Friends without a Cause as to God on that which Thou and thy Lawes call Transportation and Banishment I am grieved in my heart for thee because I have loved thee and desired in my heart thy wellfare I could weep for thee day and night if so be thereby thou mightest be made sensible I am under a deep load of affliction and am even ready to sink for thy sake in consideration of what is coming upon thee I am in great bitterness for thy Day I am even distressed with sorrow because the Mighty God is coming against thee and he whose is Conscience and the dominion thereof who will be worshipped as he pleaseth not as thou wilt is brandishing his Sword against thee and will lay thee desolate Therefore yet let my words have enterance into thine Eares and what I speak unto thee prove of Effect stay thy Steps and withdraw thine hand from us meddle not with us lest the Anger of the Lord break forth upon thee and there be no remedy I am not as those who hide things in corners and withhold from thee what are the thoughts of my heart but as one who would have it as well with thee as thou canst desire thy self who would have all evil turned from thee and that length of Dayes and Prosperity might attend thee for Ever So have I written and in nothing could I prove my faithfulness so unto thee then in so doing for I am sensible of the Lords Anger against thee for this thing and his Fury which will take hold of thee if thou shalt not desist and therefore as at all other times since thy Return I have taken the Opportunity both by Writing and otherwise to signifie unto thee what I have seen from the Lord as to this thing which for ought I ever heard thou hast friendly received so in this being weighed in my spirit and in deed distress and sorrow for thee I could no less being moved of the Lord and required of him then to discharge my self once more to thee desiring for thy sake that what I have here written may have place with thee that the Anger of the Lord burn not so against thee that there be none to quench it And so I commit what I have said to the Lord to do by it and me whatever may seem good in his sight who have no other end in all this but in Obedience to the Lord to clear my Conscience as to thee who know nothing of an outward Sword or any such thing when I so speak but only the displeasure of the Lord which I am sure is near thee who can create thee trouble as he thinks fit which I would not have upon thee and therefore have I written who am Thy Friend though a Sufferer at thy hands George Bishope Bristol the 23d. of the 2d. Moneth 1665. The Original of this was delivered into the Kings Own Hand by Mary Jones To the King of England these To the King of England This is the Word of the Lord. THink not because I have given thee dominion over the Dutch that thou shalt escape my hand if thou continue to send away my People whom thy Lawes have condemned to be Banished their Native Countrey For if thou doest I will send my Plagues on thee and thou shall know that I am the Lord. Written in Obedience to the Lord by his Servant George Bishope Bristol 16th 4th Moneth 1665. This was wrote a little after the first Engagement with the Dutch wherein Opdam their Admiral was blown up and the Original thereof the King received in James Park from the the hand of Elizabeth Baily THE END
THE Warnings of the Lord TO THE King of England AND HIS Parliament As they were Wrote and Sent By his Servant George Bishope Shalt thou Reign because thou closest thy self in Cedar Did not thy Father Eat and Drink and do Judgment and Justice and then it was well with him He Judged the Cause of the Poor and Needy then it was well with him Was not this to know me saith the Lord Jer. 22. 15 16. London Printed in the Year 1667. The Warnings of the Lord c. To thee CHARLES STUART King of England am I moved of the Lord to write and to Thee it is the Visitation of his Love through him whose travel hath been for Thee in the depth of my spirit that Thy Soul may be saved in the Day of the Lord Therefore hear that thy Soul may live and thy Dayes be prolonged in the Dayes of thy Pilgrimage FRIEND THou hast been a man of Sufferings and deep sorrows have passed over thee the Lord at length hath brought Thee into a Land of Peace and set thee upon thy Fathers Throne and bowed the hearts of the People under thee so and after such a manner as was beyond the thoughts of thee or any that thus it should be And now what remaineth but that thou love the Lord and fear before him all thy dayes that it may be well with thee and thy posterity after thee and for this purpose that thou heed his Principle in thee which shews the Evil the End and Compass of all thy Actions the thoughts of thy heart and thy secrets upon thy Bed that so out of and from Transgression thou mayest come and be led into the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and the Blessing of God may be on Thee and peace and rest within thy Borders For of this thou art not ignorant as having largely tasted of the Cup that man suffereth for sin and that Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the North nor from the South but God is Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another who is come to set his King upon his holy Hill of Sion his Pâ—inciple in Man to reign for ever Unto which men shall bring the force of the Gentiles and their Kings shall be brought and the glory of Lebanon shall come the Fir-tree and the Pine-tree and the Box-tree men of all sorts together to beautifie the place of his Sanctuary who will make the place of his feet glorious and the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve it shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted and the Sons of those that afflicted it shall come bending unto it and all those that despised it shall bow themselves down at the soles of its feet and they shall call it The City of the Lord the Sion of the Holy One of Israel and whereas it hath been forsaken and hated so that no man passed through it he will make it an Eternal Excellency a Joy of many Generations it shall also suck the Milk of the Gentiles and the Breasts of Kings and it shall know that the Lord is its Saviour and Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob. In its dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel dwell safely and the Name by which it shall be called is The Lord our Righteousness and it shall no more be said The Lord liveth which brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but The Lord liveth which brought up and which led the Seed of the house of Israel out of the North-Country and from all Countries whither the Lord had driven them and they shall dwell in their own Land the Lord hath spoken it And the day is come wherein the Lord hath raised unto David a Righteous Branch and a King raigneth and prospereth that executes Justice and Judgement in the Earth whose Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion and his Kingdom that which shall not pass away in which Thou mayest Raign and Live for Ever Moved of the Lord God Almighty the maker of Heaven and Earth who hath seen thine Affliction and Adversity and delivered thee in much Bowels of Love am I thus to write whom the world in scorn calls Quaker but am known by the Name George Bishope Bristol the 27th of the 4th Moneth 1660. Give this to the King The Original of this was delivered into the Kings Hand at White Hall by Mary Saunderson To the King of England these are from the Movings of the Lord in Love and Pity to warn him to take heed how he hath to do in Banishing the Friends of Truth called Quakers or in making Laws against them or in Suffering such as do or in Signing such Bills or Yeelding to them or suffering them to Pass or to become Laws or to be Executed upon them so as that they are Banished this Land or Removed out of this Nation or Caused so to be or otherwise to Suffer FRom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth the Almighty am I moved to write and to Thee it is the Word of the Lord Signe them not nor Consent unto them For thou knewest the heart of a Stranger when thou wast an Exile in other Countries and wanderedst from one Nation to another People seeking rest and finding none and thine Enemies were great and many and thou wast disappointed in all thou undertookest and thou couldest not prosper nor was there a reasonable ground of Hope as to Man that ever thy Exilement should return especially so as it is now and so soon as now and so great and large as now even beyond the Glory of thy Progenitors yet this the Lord did for thee when thou wast low and little in thine own Eyes and when of Thy People there were none to deliver Thee and he heard thy Cryes and thy Groans and thy Sighes who wast a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and Delivered thee and placed thee upon the Throne of these Nations and bowed them unto thee and hath kept them under so that no evil occurrent that could hurt thee hath fallen out unto thee since thou first put'st thy foot on the English Shoare upon thy Returne and on thy bended knees spakest unto the Lord and gavest thanks unto him that had done this for Thee Now in the sence of this it is good for thee to abide and remaine alwayes so the remembrance of the Lord will be near thee who hath done all this for thee and thy heart will be still tender to those who are in such a condition as thou wast and so far from putting others there even the Innocent of whom thou hast a Witness in thee that they are Innocent as to thee viz. the People of the Lord called Quakers to Banish and to do otherwise unto whom thou art now called upon which can never be blotted out that thou wilt not be at rest till thou hast relieved such as are in the condition of