and nay and can bow to none but the Lord yet full of envie and pride and where there is pride there is envie and wrath and rage and sury Cain-like in your communications some are mocking some striking and some are railing to the face and backbiting and yet when they meet they flatter one another with the cap and strake with the foot and bow with the hand and knee and yet full of envie To the light of Christ in your consciences I speak which if you love it it will bring you to bow to the Lord and let you see these things and bring you to yea and nay in all your communications and then nothing shall reign but Christ Jesus for the light will condemn all things which is contrary to it and which hath been bowed down to which is contrary to the light and that which would respect the persons of men comes to be judged for it is the trangressor of that which is pure transgresseth the pure law of God and with the pure that comes to be judged and if you love the light of Christ which he hath enlightned you withal it will bring you to put away all vain communications out of your mouthes and keep you to yea and nay in all communications and it will teach you the good manners for all you who live in your vain communications from yea and nay all your profession which the Prophets Christ and the Apostles hath spoken you having their words and the form and gone from yea and nay out of the doctrine of Christ with the life of the Apostles and the light of Christ you are to be condemned and the end of your profession is wo as Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees So you that are turned from the pure light of Christ within you you are in your vain communicaitons and do worship the beast for that which turneth from the light of Christ it sets up that which is out of the truth which is the beast so the plagues of God proceeds upon who are all turned from the light of Christ such are in the vain commuications and corrupt manners and are to be condemned But to you all that love the light of Christ and your mindes guided by it it will teach you the pure and good manners and all the corrupt manners will be judged and condemned with the light which Christ hath enlightned you withal which light will teach you to walk with God and men and there is all your teacher loving it and there is all your condemnation hating it You that live in filthineis pride in lust in cursed speaking in wantonness sporting your selves in the day-time and foolish jesting and drunkenness and gluttony and all the corruption that are in that nature which is turned from the light are in the evil communication and the corrupt manners which is to be condemned with the light which light every one in particular loving it which Christ hath enlightned every one withal it will teach you and bring to yea and nay in all your communications and it will teach you the good manners It is the eye which will let you see Christ the head and there is your teacher the light which Christ hath enlightned every one of you withal in particular which will let you see your evil deeds and when you act contrary to it which if you hate it it will be your condemnation To the light of Christ in every one of your consciences I speak which will witness me when the book of conscience is opened which light will teach you at all times walking up and down lying in bed in all your actions this light will teach you when you are in your merchandise if you do not justly the light will let you see it it will check you and secretly condemn you that is the light which shews you your evil deed which if you love it it will keep you to yea and nay in all your communications it will bring you to few words and bring you into the fear of the Lord and The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom This is to be set upon all Crosses that all may see the good manners and the corrupt manners and the corrupt communication which corrupts the good manners and the pure communication which is yea and nay according to the light of Christ in every one of your consciences To the light of Christ in every one of your consciences I do speak From them whom the world calls Quakers scornfully but Moses who quaked and trembled said To him reproaches was great riches FINIS
much of the earth give over your murmuring and reasoning fretting and grudging for all your want is for the want of God the righteous God is coming to give to every one of you according to your works now the works of ye all must be tried you that have appeared unto men beautiful outwardly will be found in the generation of murtherers and ye that have pretended to worship your sacrifice will be found to be Cains which God hath no respect to O ye high ones which spread your selves appear fair tall and strong you know not God nor your selves to be oakes O ye tall Cedars ye know not your selves to be so the Lord is sent to look for fruit in his vineyard among you it is full of wilde Olives and their wilde Grapes that many are drunk with the juyce of the wilde Grapes and so the vineyard is full of bryers and thornes that the lambs and sheep cannot pass but they are tangled among the bryers and the thornes and the Land is as a wilderness that part full of Serpents and the earth is overgrown with with weeds and nettles that there is no feeding for the lambs till the earth be dressed and overturned Howle ye vinedressers a day of howling is coming among you who have been pretenders of the dresser of the vineyards which is overgrown with weeds and nettles and thornes and crooked wayes the lambs and sheep hath been scattered and devoured amongst the bryers and the thornes and no discerning you have had betwixt a lamb a goat a sheep a wolf Now the Lord himself is gathering his lambs and his sheep where they have been scattered this cloudy dark day and some are torn and some are trampled upon with the horses of Pharaoh but the Lord his hand against you and his sword drawn the battel is begun and the sword drawn which must not be put up till it hath made a separation in hewing down and the Lord himself will have the praise and the honor and the renown and all who rules O how beautiful hath thy Harlot been O how full is the land of Inchanters O how full is the land of Sorcerers witchcrafts the mystery of her hath deceived many through her whoredoms Green was the grass fresh was the flowers the bay-tree spread it self and the haw-thorn but the time is coming of fading the flower will fade and the grass will wither and the whoredom and the inchanter must come to judgement the Lord is risen and riseth as a swift witness against the inchanter against the sorcerers against the whoremongers and the covetous The glittering sword is drawn to hew down you fruitless trees which cumber the ground ye lustful fleshly ones you have not seen your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye heady high-minded ones you have not seen your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye who live in the flesh ye do not see your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye scorners ye lyers ye dissemblers false hearts ye do not see your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground but the Lord is risen against you the earth stinks with the dead that is upon it and the pollution of the polluted The Lord is risen with power and sending forth to bury the dead and to raise up the dead all who are immortal this may see may receive Repent for the day of the Lord is coming Awake ye worldlings hearken to that in your consciences which shews you sin and evil that will guide you unto God loving it Awake ye drunkards and lustful ones who follow pleasures consider the wayes you walk in for you who act such things must never inherit the kingdom of God for you act contrary to that in your consciences which will be your condemnation pride and ambition selfishness and self-will stands up which the plagues of God are due unto silence all flesh who lives in your conceit and deceit thieving and stealing in the night what the Saints spoke making your selves drunk with it and then sells it to drunkards and then are jovial eating and drinking with drunkards Howle ye drunkards for ye shall want the staffe of bread a day of howling is coming upon you lay aside all deceitful merchandize And all ye Star-gazers who are gazing among the Stars wondering after your imaginations doing the works of darkness in whom lodgeth the Spirit of witchcraft Silence and come down all ye that ride so high that do bestir ye as Jannes did and Jambres at the coming of the children of Israel out of Aegypt through the fire and the sea ye cannot come Silence all presumptious talkers of God who sees him not but are presumptious boasters who live in envie crossness and perversness and vain contention which proceeds from corrupt mindes who mindes the earth and earthly things who are enemies to the cross of Christ who glories in your shame whose end is destruction whose belly is your God who do not see God are not come so far as Moses for Moses saw God face to face and death reigns from Adam to Moses and all that sees not God death reigns in you To that in your conscience I speak which Christ hath enlightned you whithal which calls you to repentance which shews you your evil deeds which will be your teacher owning and loving it your condemnation hating it Now you have time prize it this is the day of your visitation George Fox A Warning from the LORD to all Hawkers and Hunters THe word of the Lord to all you Hawkers and Hunters who are carried up in the flesh vapouring vaunting up your selves swelling in your vanities boisterous glorying in your strength lifted up exalted puffed up lofty and high minded This all is contrary to the way of God and all such they that dwelt in the life of the Scriptures declared against and all this which is acted out from the nature which is contrary to the light is to be condemned with the light and all that will fade and wither away Lament and repent and turn unto the Lord God all ye that follow such courses actions and practices while you have time Esau was a Hunter he despised his birth-right and after fought it with wars and there was no place of repentance found To you all Hunters who are lifted up who are prophane as your father Esau was he became a place for Dragons and a Wilderness and desolate and barren Dragon is a devourer Therefore O take heed and be warned Now to that in your consciences I do speak which he hath enlightned you withal it will let you see your prophaness your hunting ravening minde your destroying minde which destroys the creature and destroys the creation upon your own lusts and the whole creation groaneth with that bondage of corruption nay you take pleasure in destroying the creatures and make your selves sport in destroying them running to Alehouses drinking healths and tempting one another with
when fruit is sought there is none found on you you are they that cumber the ground The Lord is coming into his vineyard to hew you down all you lustful ones you drunkards all you railers and false accusers all you covetous oppressors cumber not the ground The glittering sword is drawn it is fourbished for the slaughter The Lords eye is opened and his hand is stretched out against his enemies Now woe woe unto ye wicked ye have despised trembling and quaking Tremble tremble tremble and quake O all ye nations for the whirlwinde is gone forth that you shall be scattered as chaff the day of the Lord is appearing that shall burn as an oven that you shall be consumed as stubble and the trumpet is sounding out of the holy mountain that all the inhabitants of the land shall tremble and the Lord is uttering forth his voice before his hoste and the day of the Lord is grown very terrible who can abide it Drunkard swearer lyer thou cannot hide thy self witchcraft sorcerers scorners cheaters dissemblers the Lord will finde you all out all your pretence of God and Christ shall stink heavy in your faces you dissemblers for God will not be mocked with words wo and misery a day of howling amongst you lofty ones a day of howling among you lustful ones your throates will be be drie parched and woe is thy portion thou lustful one thy lust shall not be fed who hath devoured the whole creation A day of howling amongst you covetous oppressours taksmaster who hath devoured the creation and doth devour it some creatures are destroyed for want of ordering and upon your lusts some creatures are destroyed for want of creatures You are them that cumber the ground and the Lord is coming with his whirlwinde to sweep you away and the earth shall yield her increase and come to enjoy her Sabbaths and the righteous shall inherit it and the land shall be cleansed of evil doers Sion is threshing and a fan is come to fan and the Lord is at work in his vineyard and the arrows of of the Almighty are shooting forth against the wicked and hell hath opened her mouth to receive all you workers of iniquity and hell gapes for you Tremble and be astonished you heathen that knows not God for you are all heathens that know not God and the land is full of crooked waies the land is full of rough places the land is full of hills and mountains the land is full of bryers and thorns dogs and swine fighting and barking snarling and biting one another for the husks and for the earthly creatures Therefore all people repent repent while you have time for the mighty day of the Lord is coming therefore hearken to that which shews you sin and evil there is your teacher loving it there is your condemnation hating it THe word of the Lord to all ye fruitless trees ye dry trees ye oaks ye tall cedars ye fat bulls of Bashan ye thorns ye briers ye wilde asses which snust up your noses in the top of the mountains the Forrests ye high-way-ground ye stony-ground ye goats ye wolves ye dogs ye swine ye serpents ye vulterous ones ye beasts ye lyons ye strong horses neighing up and down walking after your lusts this is not railing this is the Scripture-language Own your names every one in your place with the light ye are all seen and your names comes to be known so every one bears your name according to your nature ye are them that cumber the ground ye are them that are not of the light ye are them that are to be condemned with the light ye that are unjust ye cumber the ground Woe unto you drunkards ye cumber the ground woe unto you hypocrites ye cumber the ground woe unto you lyers ye cumber the ground woe unto you scoffers ye cumber the ground scorners and backbiters ye cumber the ground dissemblers ye are them that cumber the ground the hand of the Lord is against you To that in your consciences I speak which shall witness me eternally ye drunkards ye cumber the ground ye rotten hearts ye false-hearts and dissemblers ye cumber the ground ye oppress the creation the land mourns because of such ye devourers ye murtherers ye are they that pollutes the earth ye cumber the ground Fear fear the Lord God tremble before him ye that make a profession of Christ and God and live in deceit ye are lyers ye cumber the ground ye are of the devil ye abide not in the truth for you do not abide in the life that gave forth the Scripture so you are not what you profess in life and power but hath the words the form and makes a trade of them Woe unto you devourers that devour the people and make a prey of them ye lustful ones which follows pleasure rioting feasting sporting drunkenness guttony hawking hunting Elau-like ye cumber the ground ye are the place for the dragon ye are as the wilderness fruitless And to you this is the word of God To that in your consciences I speak as you love it it will arise in you and you will see your selves and see the Scriptures ye ungodly ones ye covetous walk after your ungodly lusts ye vain talkers ye cumber the ground ye are as the caterpillers ye are as the locusts that go without a King which are turned from the light ye are for the sword to be slain ye which mindes earthly things whose mindes are turned from the light which walk after your own ungodly lusts ye defile the flesh ye cumber the ground ye careless ones the hand of the Lord is against you ye which follow foolish boasting foolish talking foolish songs and spends your time in such wayes O woe and misery is coming upon you how do you spend your time and how have you lost your time hell gapes and opens her mouth to receive you where all the wicked are turned into Stand still a while and see whither all ye must go To the light in you I speak that with it ye may see your selves remember your selves and with it you may see no unrighteousness must enter the kingdom of God and this which shews you it is the light of Christ within you and loving it it will lead you from all such actions and practices as are contrary to it and with it all such things are to be condemned This is your teacher the light this is it will bring you to witness Christ who is the way to the Father and this is it that will bring you to yea and nay in all your communications and this will teach you good manners to deny all evill communication and this will bring you to lay aside all deceitful merchandise all lusts pleasures filthy practices which the world lives in and this is it which is pure and teaches pureness and holiness without which none shall ever see God You that are proud and lofty cumbers the ground ye are
abomination to the Lord God with the light you are seen with the light you are comprehended with the light you are judged To the light in you I speak which will let you see vainity one vanity upon another To the light in all your consciences I speak everywhere which will let you see all that is contrary to it To that I am made manifest the light which if you love it it will guide your hearts together into unity for the unity is in the light and up to God the Father of light and there is your teacher present alwaies whithersoever ye go or lying in your bed this light doth not change to which I speak thou that changeth acts contrary to it and with this light which changeth not art to be condemned from God who changeth not and to be the itching ears and in the doctrine of the devil and amongst the fables THe word of the Lord to you all who are turned from the light which Jesus Christ hath enlightned you withal do hate it who follows pleasures who are such as the Scriptures speaks of who are sporting your selves in the day time living in wantonness you are such as the Scripture speaks of which the Apostle that dwelled in the light cried against spoke against and judged you are scoffers and scorners glorying in your strength ye are such as the Scripture speaks of which were ever judged with the life that gave forth the Scriptures and are to be condemned with the light You that follow drunkenness fighting and adultery and idolatry pride and envie you are such as defiles the flesh you are such that the Scripture speaks of that were judged with the life that gave it forth and which it ever declared against You that follow bowls and cards and shovelboord and drinking healths and have musick the Harp the Viol the Lute ye are such as the Lord sent Isaiah to cry against and you act contrary to the light and you are in the works of the flesh in that nature out of the light and with the light you are to be condemned and all your works are for the fire who casts the law of God behind your backs which is perfect according to the light in your consciences which judges down all that which is not perfect with the light all those actions are seen which are in that nature contrary to the light so with the light all such are condemned from God You that follow foot-bal-playing cudgel-playing fencing exercising your selves at back-swords or rapiers you are glorying in your strength ye are boasting ye are vapouring ye are disdaming ye are despising you are envying you are in pride you are in ambition with the light which Christ hath enlightned you withal you are to be condemned from God and all these practises I see them all that manhood and all that fame and all that renown it must be laid down in the dust And you that follow wrestlings and leapings and dancings you are such that live in the flesh without the fear of God you are inventing with that minde which goes from the light and with the light you are to be condemned from God who lives in the lusts of the flesh and these actions of the flesh And ye that delight in songs in tunes and jesting books and ballads rhimes themes inventing verses you are in the fables you are such as the Scriptures speaks of acting in that nature which is out of the truth which with the light all such works of the flesh are to be condemned this will wither this will fade away and pass away And all you that follow horse-racing you are in the boasting you are idolaters and adulterers and you are covetous you are they that oppose the creation you are chalenging and envying when you cannot get your will and when you have your will this is in Cain's way which is for condemnation who walks in the way which is ungodly Ye that follow merchandize buyes and sells and makes a trade of it and buy the creature at one towne and sells them at another market It 's naught it 's naught you say when you come to buy and They are bad they are bad and when you have bought them then They are the best in the market and then you set up that which you said was nought So with the light which shews your lying your deceit your false-hearts are you with it to be condemned who lives in these customes of sin which hath taken away the sence you are in the thievish nature that do so that buy and sell the creatures to oppress them and say it is naught for your own ends and then say it is good for your own ends To the light in all your consciences I speak which will witness me and will let you see what dissemblers you are and how far you are out of the doctrine of Christ which is yea and nay in all communication who when you come to cheap a thing or buy a thing you say You will give no more for it not a peny and the seller saith likewise the same he saith No be will not take a penny less then they presently yeild one to another out of the yea and nay to be and with the light which bring to yea and nay to be condemned to it I speak and it shall witness me against all the deceits of the world and all deceitful merchandise who act without the fear of God And all you that follow feastings and weddings your Priests acted in that nature out of the light with the light is to be condemned yet marriage is honourable in all where the bed is not defiled And you that turn from the light which invent pictures idols and set them up you are in the nature turned from the light ye and all your images is to be condemned and ye that are turned from the light of Christ which is eternal that minde invents crosses forms a cross imitates a cross which dwelling in the light it self is a cross to the ground which forms these crosses and to you this is the word of God And so here both the image and the image-maker and the founder of the image dwelling in this cross must be destroyed Good and bad manners distinguished COrrupt communications corrupts the good manners Now if you love the light which Christ hath enlightned you withal it will bring you to yea and nay in all your communications for whatsoever is more is evil And you that turn from this light which Christ hath enlightned you withal then in your communications ye are not yea and nay and so you are in the evil and out of the doctrine of Christ and so in that nature you may be taught to bend to bow to cringe one to another with cap and knee and hand and foot and so calls that civil and and good manners and he that doth not with such is judged not to be not civil who lives in the pure communication yea