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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28227	A book of warnings, or, The visitation of the Lord's love to the King and his Parliament, the nobility and gentry, the arch-bishops and bishops &c., the presbytery, the Independents and Baptists, the people of these nations thorough [sic] his servant George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2988; ESTC R18647	27,063	34

a man that tells ye the truth he hath heard of God This did not Abraham Now Friends to be plain and short with you You are the Children of Abraham no farther and no longer than ye do the deeds of Abraham but his Children ye are whose works ye do And therefore said John to the Pharisees who came to his Baptism O Generation of Vipers who hath forewarned ye to flee from the wrath to come Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say in your selves that we have Abraham to our Father for I say unto you God is able of these stones to raise up Children unto Abraham And now also the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree therefore every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire I indeed baptize you with water unto Repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier then I whose shooes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire whose Fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his Wheat into his Garner but he will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable fire So see Friends what fruit you bear and whose Works ye do Whose Tree ye are of for as is the Tree so is the fruit and as is the Fruit so is the Tree And if the Tree be evil the Fruit is so and if the Fruit be evil the Tree is so And every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire And see Friends whether ye are Chaff or Wheat For to this ye must come if ever it be well with you For he will thoroughly purge his Floor whose Fan is in his hand who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose shooes John saith he was not worthy to bear and that he was mightier then he who came to baptize with water unto Repentance and he will gather his Wheat into the Garner and burn up the Chaff with unquenchable fire as hath been declared In Bowels of tender love I write these things as being moved of the Lord for his Seed's sake in you that ye be not deceived in a wrong apprehension of your state as in another when you are not as he is in your selves For if whilest we seek to be justified by Christ we our selves are found sinners saith Paul is therefore Christ the Minister of sin God forbid For if I build again the things that I have destroyed I make my self a Transgressor And if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new Creature Old things are passed away behold all things are become new for as he is so must be that which is in him For What fellowship hath Righteousness with Unrighteousness And what Communion hath Light with Darkness And what Concord hath Christ with Belial Or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God said Paul to the Corinthians the Church there as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people And he that doth righteousness saith John is righteous as he is righteous And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself as he is pure For as he is so are we in this World And whosoever sinneth hath neither seen him nor known him And the Temple of God is holy whose Temple ye are And if any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy And know ye not that ye are the Temples of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you saith Paul again to the same Church And he that is born of God doth not commit sin for his Seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God He that committeth sin is of the Devil for the Devil s●nneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous as he is righteous In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his Brother saith John again in his first Epistle Now Friends these things I have written unto you as I have said that ye may not be deceived for while ye think to be justified by Christ and yet keep a liberty in some things to transgress and in some things to heed the Witness of God and believe not in him in that which witnesseth that that is He ye will dye in your sins Except ye believe that I am he said he to the Pharisees ye shall die in your sins For he became the Author of eternal salvation to as many as obey him even to as many as believe in his Name And this is his Name The true and faithful Witness Unto which answers that of him in the Conscience and by which he will judge all men and they shall be left without excuse For if ye were blind said he to the Pharisees ye should have no sin but now ye say We see therefore your sin remaineth And he was manifest to take away sin And for this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he may destroy the works of the Devil And sin is the work of the Devil And he gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Now how can these things be and Men abide in sin and that to their Death And how are they purged and purified from sin who abide in sin And how are they justified that are condemned for sin And how are their sins taken away whose sin remain And how are they in Christ Jesus who are not new Creatures And how are they as he is in this world who sin while they are in this world And how are they righteous even as he is righteous who do unrighteousness and all unrighteousness is sin And how do they purifie themselves as he is pure who abide in sin And how is he become the Author of Eternal Salvation to them who neither obey him nor believe in his Name And how are old things passed away when they are there still And how are all things become new when there is the old And how can that be in him which hath neither seen him nor known him And how can that have Eternal life which will not come to him Friends These things are deep and weighty and it behoves ye to consider whilst ye have time for the Door is near shutting and the Lord is at hand to render unto every man according to his work and as your works are so will be your reward So 't is high time to look

about you that ye may be sure of your works and that they be wrought in God For the Night is at hand wherein none can work but every man must be tried according to his work for what he hath not what hath another The Lord hath long waited on you and his presence hath been amongst ye and he hath been with you whilst ye have been with him He is now come whom ye knew not though he was with you The times of this ignorance God winked at now he commands men every where to repent because he hath appointed a Day in the which he will judge the World in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead and if Christ be not risen then are ye yet in your sins But Christ is risen and is become the first fruits of them that slept And that he is risen appears by his Witness in all men which testifies to all and witnesseth to his K●ngdom which is an everlasting Kingdom and to his Dominion which shall never have end And it bears witness to the Lord that he desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may return and live as he hath sworn because there is that of him in every one that seeks them to live over which Death hath no more dominion For in that he is risen Death hath no more dominion over him but he liveth unto God And he is the propitiation for our sins By Faith in whose Blood we have access unto God by this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered in the flesh arm your selves with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men but to the will of God And so Friends I leave you to the Witness of God to answer to me in this thing which will answer to me if you heed it you will hear it for I am moved of the Lord unto this in bowels of Love and it wil leave you without excuse So Farwell My Love is to the Seed of God in you who am known to many of you by the Name of GEO. BISHOPE To the People of these Nations Friends YOu have had Long and Great Warning the Lord hath raised up from amongst ye of your Sons and of your Daughters of your servants and of your Neighbours faithful Witnesses unto his Name who by Word and Writing Conversation and Example Doing and Suffering have testified of his Day that is come wherein he will judge every one according to his Works and that the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and every Tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire and therefore he warned you by them all to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance whilst the Door was open and whilst he called that when you should call in the Day of your distress he might arise and deliver you And by them he shewed you the way unto himself even by hearkning to and obeying that of him within every one of you which shewed ye evil and reprov'd and judged you and shewed to you what ye should do by which the Holy Men of God of Old drew near unto and were drawn to the Lord and by which those of your Sons and Daughters Servants and Neighbours who have testified as aforesaid and remained faithful have drawn near and were brought to the Lord and have felt his power to give them Victory over sin and evil and the corrupt Conversation in which they lived whilst they were ignorant of and believed not in him who witnessed in them who is the Power of God to salvation to as many as obey him even to as many as believe in his Name Now Friends after all this Warning and gracious Visitation the Lord hath long waited to see whether ye would turn to that which witnesseth in you which is of God and obey it that your souls may live and be redeemed out of Death and from the bondage of Corruption In which you are who are servants unto sin For as many as are led by sin are servants unto sin and as many as are servants unto sin are in bondage to sin and as many as are in bondage to sin are in Death and the Son hath not made them free For if the Son make ye free then are ye free indeed saith Christ and the Truth makes free and this is Truth To believe in the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and that of him in you which shews ye your state and your condition and your Enemy and his working and where ye are and how ye are fallen and gone Out of the Way Is that which is come to redeem you out of that state and to deliver you from your Enemy and to recover you back again and to guide your feet in the way of Peace that your Souls may have rest with God And this you know every one of you You cannot stifle it It 's too late to do it the Lord hath reached to his Witness in you and hath given you to see all this and how you should hearken to that of him in you which shews ye all this and the secrets of your hearts and searcheth your hearts and trieth your reins and shews you the compass and end of your actions and that ye should do none iniquity it tells you in secret Now that which shews ye this is greater then all for it should never shine in your Consciences shew you this the way to God could that which hath you in Captivity keep it out it concerns you to heed and to have heeded this that so the Lord's loving-kindness might not be in vain as to you nor the striving of his Spirit nor the stretching forth of his Arms to draw and gather you for this of a truth I have to say unto you That ye have all need of him of his mercy not that he hath need of you And he might have left ye all in the state wherein ye were by Nature even Children of Wrath and never have shewn ye where you were or that ye were sinners or in such a state nor your Enemy nor what an Enemy he is until ye come to feel his Wrath and to be tumbled into the Pit out of which none that goes ever comes But he hath visited you and shewn you what is good To do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with the Lord and something hath striven in you since the time you could remember and shew'd you evil and judg'd you for evil yet it ye have not obeyed but have been conformed to the World and to the Fashions and Customes of the World which are evil as you have been led and you