O London least my Soul depart from Thee least I make Thee Desolate a Land not Inhabited And may not his Servants say especially now they pull them so violently from their Meetings even Men Women and Children as a man may say and force them into Prison-holes and Dungeous I say may not they justly cry out and say with that Prophet Ier. 6. 10. To whom shall I give warning that they may here Behold their Ear is uncircumcised and they cannot hearken Behold the Word of the Lord is to them a Reproach they have no delight in it And vers 13. For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to Covetousness and from the Prophet even to the Priest every one dealeth falsely And may we not safely say to England at this day with the same Prophet Jer. 5. 30. That a wonderful and Horible thing is committed in the Land The Prophets prophesie falsely and the Priests bear Rule by their means and the People love to have it so But what will ye do in the End thereof For O Richard Brown when the Lord shall make Inquisition for Blood he Remembreth them he forgetteth not the Cry of the Humble Psal. 9. 11. For Precious in the sight of the Lord are the death of his Saints Psal. 116. 15. I mean the peaceable tender Lambs of Jesus that little Flock who are quietly Keeping the Word of Christs Patience waiting upon him in all his Ordinances Appointments and Administrations that are so much slighted villified and under valued by Men in this our Day Therefore know O Mayor that whilst thou art Haling the Lords People to Prison and Indeavouring with all that little Petty Mite of Power thou hast allotted thee to bring them at an under that then thou art but doing the Devils drudgery for so saith the Spirit Revel 2. 10. Pear none of those things which thou shalt Suffer Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison that ye may be tryed And you shall have Tribulation ten dayes From whence O Richard Brown I would have thee and all Persecuting spirits to Note what the Spirit saith in the Text Behold or take notice of it the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison I say again let all persecuting spirits know yea and behold I say again lest they should seem to have some Colourable Excuse at that great day of Account when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel Rom. 2. 16 I say I would fain have all persons in Places of Authority know that as they are set as Magistrates they are by the Appointment of God to be a terrour to evil works and a praise to them that do well Rom. 13. 3. But to Imprison Punish or Banish from the Land of their Nativity any that own the Gospel of Christ upon a Scripture Account is to prove themselves Persecutors for I shall challenge the ablest and Learnedest Persons in this Nation that can wash their hands of Roomes Traditions to shew any such Warrant from Gods Word in the least for as I shewed to the King in my Fanaticks Mite cast into His Treasury in the first Impression in Pages 12. and 13. and in the last in Pag. 9. and 10. that a Minister of the Gospel is not to be as a General in a Army to Frighten Beat and Fight men into Faith but as an Embassadour to perswade to Invite gently to treat with and to intreat into the way of God the one being Evangelical or Gospel but the way of force being Diabolical and of the Devil and whilst they are made believe they are doing Gods Work for saith Christ Iohn 16. 2. the time will come that when they shall kill you they shall think they do God good service They are then manifesting themselves to be Drudges to that Evil One for so saith the Text Rom. 12. 10. The Devil shall cast some of you into Prison c. But here some may object and say That this is a Text out of the Revelations and the Revelations is very Mysterious and the Text may mean something else To which I Answer That I judge it is meant literally and that it shall be Actually performed as we see in a Measure it is at this day the which is a great Confirmation of my Faith in the Truth of it So that what I have seen and felt and heard that Declare I as in other so in this case and therefore I shall farther Answer that though the Devil hath not as I know off nor ever had any Power Actually as a Commission Officer as a Mayor or Iustice of Peace so to do yet Instrumentally he may so do in and by Men that are so Commissionated and although I cannot truly say that ever any Mayor either of this or any other City or any Iustice of Peace of this or any other City Town or Borrough was ever a Devil simply so considered yet I must take leave to think who is in Men when they Act so contrary to the very Heathen and have not learned or rather by reason of much Blood-shed are hardened and blinded that they cannot see how to act as meer natural men or Heathens that walk onely by the Light of Nature Even to do by another as freely as they would have another do by them So that though I cannot say that any Mayor or Iustice is a Devil yet I can safely and upon a good account say with our Apostle Ephes. 2. 2. That there are some who walk according to the course of this World according to the Prince of the Power of the Ayre the spirit that now worketh I pray mind it the spirit that now Worketh in the hearts of the Children of Disobedience And there are some that are led Captive by the Devil at his Will 2 Tim. 2. 26. And such shall fall upon the People of God when the Devil their Master hath a Commission Signed and not before for the Devil knew Iob long before he could do him any harm for the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my Servant Iob that there is none like him in the Earth a perfect and an npright man one that feareth God and Escheweth Evil Job 1. 8 9 10. Then Satan answered the Lord and said Doth Iob fear God for nought hast thou not set an Hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side thou hast blessed the Work of his hands and his Substance is increased in the Land therefore we find that the Devil said Put forth thine hand now and touch All that he hath and he will curse thee to thy Face And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power onely upon him put not forth thine hand So or when he had his Commission Signed Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and the next news we hear of Iob the Sabeans are Commissionated by this
I say if serving of God peaceably and quietly with Reverence and Godly Fear be good in the Sight of God How can those answer the turning the Edge of the Sword of Iustice upon them before the great Jehovah who put that Sword into their hands and if so Why are the poor peaceable People of God that are no Turkish slaves but the free born Commoners of England thus enslaved Why must the Sword of Oppression thus be suffered in the hands of Richard Brown instead of the sword of Iustice Why are the several Justices of Peace in the several Counties of England thus suffered to disturb the Peace of the Innocent Lambs of Jesus in their peaceable Meetings And if any man shall ask me the reason why I question these things I must Answer them in the words of Little David in that 1 Sam. 17. 29. What have I now done is there not a cause Is not that great Goliah of our times defying the Host of the Israel of God that Rome-bred Monster Persecution Is it not now vaunting it self against both the Cause and People of God Is it not now pulling down those that cannot drink drunk go like Anticks Spot and Paint Whore and Rant Rend and Tear Swear and Forswear Is not this a Cause why the People of God who will evidence themselves so to be now to stand up for Purity Piety Peace Mercy Truth and Iustice and in such a time as this boldly Couragiously Manfully to fight the Lords Battel and to lay about them with the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God Joh. 6. 17. and chiefly and more frequently to meet together and with a peaceable gentle holy violence come with great Zeal into their several and respective Meetings to pray to the Lord and set their shoulder to the Work as one Man to offer an Holy Violence to the Throne of Grace that God would let King Charles see what he hath done for him and also what he doth expect from him that so the End of his faithful Subject in casting that into his Treasury may be effected To which purpose it shall be my request to all my Brethren that they would both privately and Publickly Meet at their Publick Meetings to cry Mightily to the Father by the help of the Spirit in the Name of his Son King Iesus that he would Assist King Charles in that needful work of Self-Examination and due Consideration Not forgetting the Great the Mighty and the Noble of the Land nor thee Richard Brown although thou art so cruel But to remember also all Iustices of Peace yea and all the Nation in general that are thus bent against Gods People with such a spirit of bitterness that God would let them see how they requite the Lord for his Benefits bestowed upon him and them and to them in doing so much for him their King To which purpose that it may be the more Effectually done I say to them all as I do to Henry Den about Swearing in my Fannaticks Testimony against Swearing in Page 45 that they would call for and crave the assistance of all in that Page mentioned that so they may if possible have one Word of God from the ablest of their Learned Men for their thus imprisoning and abusing the Fock of God or any man else for their worshipping their God because they cannot worship with them I say again I would have every soul be fully satisfied herein before they proceed farther that so they may have the Word of God for their Warrant as a Foundation of their Faith herein for saith the Apostle Rom. 14. 23. Whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin For Faith is the full perswasion of the heart of Man grounded upon the Promises of God and wrought in us by the Spirit of God So that if thou hast not a Word of God for thy Warrant as a Foundation of thy Faith herein thy Faith is no more Faith but Fancy and therefore have a care Soul who ever thou art though never so great I say again in the fear of the Lord have a care that the Lord say not one day to you that are thus found persecuting his People for worshipping him not at all harming you as once he said by his Prophet to Israel of old Isai. 1. 12. Who hath required this at your hands Why have you Ensnared Inslaved Imprisoned and evilly Intreated my People when I have done so much for you when I have given you so much Liberty so much Freedom so many Priviledges and Injoyments and can ye not suffer the Members of that Body of which my Son Iesus is the Head no Liberty at all When King Charles wanted his Kingdoms Wealth Liberty Subjects Armies Arms Ammunition Magazines and Store-houses Sumptuous and Fair Buildings Parkes and Chases Meadows Fields and Pastures Ships and Shipping with all that He hath and all that He doth enjoy and all this He hath by His own shewing again and again from the hands of our Father that Loved us and gave his Son to Die for us yea He hath what He hath from the hands of our Father who is so to us by Promise not onely by Creation but also by Regeneration and Adoption yea we have his Word for it 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. And by his assistance have performed the conditions and I have his Seal for my Son-ship Ephes. 1. 13. and through Mercy I speak not Parrot-like but what I have through Grace seen and known felt and looked upon and handled that I declare it is that which giveth me boldness now Acts 4. 13. and will give it me at the day of Judgement 1 Iob. 4. 17. And although we are his peaceable and quiet Subjects by the appointment of our Father yet he careth not for us but is desirous to be rid of us and no Roome fit for us in all his Territories but a Prison and in these Prisons the Dungeon and that by many thought to good for us too although we never deserved such things at his hands I am sure he promised us better things and that upon conditions too the which on our parts were never yet broken nor never shall be let him deal with us however he pleaseth yet our peaceable Meetings are broken and our Forms and Accommodations in those Meetings broken to pieces Demollished and burned and that by the Rude Rabble and should we were it our Principle be but half so Tumultuous as these are that at every turn have to do with us we should then be looked upon as very dangerous Persons such as there might be some colour of Imprisoning but blessed be the Lord we are not such and yet are and have been Imprisoned and in Kent several have been Haled away to Maidestone who now lie there and our Brother Crosse who a short time before with his own hands presented a moderate and an honest Petition into the Kings Hand in order to the procuring a Liberty according to the Kings Promise
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
of Peace the Prince of Peace and the Spirit of Peace and yet actest so contrary to them all Dost thou think rational men have not their eyes in their heads because thou art blind Wilt thou with the Ideot think every one a Fool when he is the greatest or most apparent one himself Wilt thou with the Drunkard think that every man else is Drunk when drink hath jostled out his Reason Dost thou well know thine own Opinion as to God his Truth so as that thou canst say this or that is Error or rather doth not thy actings discover that thy Religion is as those Bishops of England was in K. Henry the Eight's Q. Mary's and Q. Elizabeths times now for this and then for that and then again for the other Again Consider I beseech thee whereabout thou art as for thy Religion I query whether thou art not yet to choose it I fear thou art as uncertain to that as thou art in thy acts of Violence and War Once for the late King when upon his Birth-days and other such Festivals thou hadst thy vain-glorious Bonfires in Loyters that must Sail up to White-hall with Wind and Tyde currently to let King Charles the First and his Courtiers know that there was one Richard Brown of White Friars a Woodmonger that did Honour him his Birth Breeding and Progeny But so soon as the Tyde is Turned and when both Wind and Tyde is against King Charles his Heirs and Successors House of Lords and Bishops then Who but Major General R. Brown engaging eagerly against the House of the Stuarts House of Lords and Bishops And now that the Wind and Tyde are come about again who but R. Brown who more busie than he who more double diligent who more officious to frighten great eminent men of parts and abilities into a perswasion as he did Ieremieh Ives to Swear if not to Forswear as in my Fanaticks Testimony against Swearing is evident with what is also judged a Reason of it in thee as in Page 45. So that here is up and down and down and up again One time for a King Bishops and House of Lords then against them and now for them again and none of all this without Swearing So that here is Swearing for and Swearing against and Swearing for again And because thy Throat is so open a Sepulchre thou art mad and wilt Imprison all both young and old rich and poor that cannot swallow Oathes as greedily as thy Self So that here is one thing and another and what you will and for what you please if you please but to conferre Honours Profits and Preferments upon him provided you be but of the strongest side for that hath been the course all along So that generally men to save their own stake as we use to say will Swear for that Power one Week Moneth or Year which the next or so soon as it stands with their own Interest they will be ready both to Pull down and Swear against So that who but Richard Brown when King Charles the First was in Power at White-Hall but when the same King Charles was at Holmby House a Prisoner who but Major General Richard Brown in full Commission against him and who else must be sent as one of the Commissioners to treat with him But Consider of thy cruelty in all thy undertakings Dost thou not think O Richard Brown that men have their eyes in their heads do not all men generally know that Persecution is one of Romes horrid impious and most abominable Bratts For in her shall be found the Blood of the Prophets and of Saints and all that were slain upon the earth Revel 18. 24. For I saw the Woman drunk with the Blood of the Saints and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Revel 17. 6. And therefore may I not say to thee as once the Lord Christ said to Iames and Iohn Luk. 9. 55. who when the Samaritans would not receive them they queried with him whether they should not call for fire from Heaven as Elias did and consume them To whom the Lord Christ made this reply saying Ye know not what spirit ye are of for the Son of Man came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Therefore O Richard Brown examine thy spirit and see whether it be from Christ or not For a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand And how can men profess themselves to be Christs Disciples and yet when they kill banish or hale to prison for the name of Christ they think they do God good service Can these things stand together are these things agreeable to the mind of God upon a Scripture account Examine thine own heart and try thine own wayes and as thou professest thy self to be a Christian lay thy Actings to the Rule of Gods Word try and examine them according to that saying of our Apostle 1 Iohn 4. 1. Try the spirits whether they be of God But if upon a Scripture account thou art not willing to enter into judgement with thy self then be perswaded to try thy self by that Light within as that People called Quakers require their Hearers Even by the Light of Nature that which men have given them to witness for or against them that which will either accuse or excuse even that Witness-bearer spoken of by our Apostle Rom. 2. 14. which Light is to be followed by those that have not the written Law of God to Regulate them and therefore we shall read the Text thus For when the Gentiles which have not the Law written do by Nature the things contained in the Law written these having not the Law written are a Law unto themselves which shews the work of the Law written to be written in their hearts their Conscience also bearing them witness and their thoughts in the mean while accusing or excusing one another So that that which doth accuse or excuse is Conscience or that Light within so that by their rule Conscience or the Light of Nature is Christ because it doth make manifest and so they run it up That which doth make manifest is Light and Christ is Light and this Light is Christ or the Spirit of Christ Christ and his Spirit is one and cannot be divided and so that Christ or their Light within them is in them their hope of glory I say again to thee Richard Brown Didst thou but act and walk as the Heathens and Gentiles didst thou but walk just according to the Light of Nature thou wouldst not dare to act as thou hast and dost And seeing Conscience is that which doth either accuse or excuse and that thou hast and dost that which in Conscience ought not to be done let me in plainness tell thee I fear thy Conscience is asleep I say it is to be feared Conscience is and hath been a long time in a deep Lethargy therefore jogg it rouse it awake it tell it it hath slept long enough and that thou hast need of it
begg thee in the fear of the great Iehovah to consider thy Condition what it is and how the Case standeth with thee the which that thou mayst the better do the Premises being duly weighed Consider 1. What thou wast 2. What thou art 3. What thou shalt be to all Eternity Secondly Consider seriously 1. What thou hast done 2. What thou art now a doing 3. What thou shalt do to Eternity And Thirdly Consider 1. Where thou hast been 2. Where thou art 3. Whither thou shalt go to Eternity O I beseech thee in Gods fear Consider thy standing thy breath is in thy nostrils as well as others and God may as soon send his Messenger Death to thee as to another for the Lord will abhor the Bloody and Deceitful man Psal. 5. 6. For saith the same Prophet Psal. 55. 23. But thou O Lord shalt bring them down into the pit of Destruction for bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days But what man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good Depart from evil and do good seek peace and pursue it For the eyes of the Lord are over the Righteous and his Ears are open to their Cry But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut out their Memorial from off the Earth And should the Lord take thee away in this cruel inhumane merciless violent bloody-minded Condition what would become of thee to Eternity for as Death leaveth a man so Iudgement shall find him If Death put a man into the hole of the Earth a cruel an inhumane a merciless a violent a bloody-minded man so shall Iudgement find him Consider I beseech thee that the Fruits of the Spirit are love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness meekness and tempearnce Gal. 5. 22. whilest the Works of the Flesh some of which are manifestly these hatred malice wrath strife envyings murthers the living in any one of which will exclude a man from Heavens Glory Gal. 5. 20 21. And that thou mayest see what I really intend in this my Alarm I shall after the thundring out of Gods Iudgements against Oppression and tyrannical Oppressors I shall I say in Christian Love lay before thee some flashings of pure and glorious Gospel-Light to the refreshing thy soul and to the enlightning the eyes of thy understanding that so thou mayst if thou art willing to it even be recovered out of thy sad condition For as I said in the beginning of my Discourse from Isaiah the first so shall I begin my Conclusion and say to thee and to all Tyrannical Persecuting Spirits Your hands are full of Blood therefore wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before the Lord cease to do evil learn to do well seek Iudgement relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless and plead for the widows And then come and plead with the Lord and if ye so do though your sins were as scarlet they shall be as wooll though they be as crimson they shall be as snow For God is a merciful a loving and a tender-hearted God to poor sinful souls who if ye will believe himself saith As I live I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth but that the wicked turn from his ways and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye die O house of Israel Ezek. 33. 11. For if the wicked will turn from his all sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not die All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live Ezek. 18. 21 22. For The Lord is long-suffering to us-wards not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. O then Richard Brown and all persecuting and violent spirits in the fear of the Lord be perswaded by the Lord to cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye die O Mayors of London and Iustices of England For I tell you again and again that I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth wherefore turn ye your selves and live Ezek. 18. 31 32. See the willingness of an offended God to be friends and at peace with an offending soul nay he thinks much of every minutes time that ye spend before ye come to him For hear how he crieth out by that Wise man saying How long I pray mind the tearms How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and ye scorners delight in scorning and fools hate knowledge Turn ye at my reproof And what then may some Poor Ignorant Malitious Envious Cursing Swearing Rending Tearing Persecuting soul say What shall we have upon our Returning Behold this thou shalt have I will pour out my Spirit upon you I will make known my words unto you Prov. 1. 22 23. I will give you my Spirit that shall lead you into all truth John 16. 13. whose operation in you will produce other effects then Envying Slandring and casting into Prison Strong-holds and Dungeons for the fruits thereof are Love Ioy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Meekness and Temperance So that if your sins were never so Red though they be of never so deep a dye yet forsake them and the Blood of a Crucified Iesus shall cleanse you from all sins 1 John 1. 7. For he is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole World 1 John 2. 1 2. Therefore take that good advice from the Lord given by his servant Peter to those Iewes that were the Actual Betrayers and Murtherers of the Lord Christ Act. 2. 38 39. Repent ye therefore and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the Remission of Sinnes and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost Which Holy Ghost or Spirit of Truth will lead you into all truth and will make a clear discovery of Truth from Error of Light from Darkness I can through mercy say it will do so I have found it and it is the desire of my soul that you and all the men of the world should find and know it And this is one and the great and main cause why I write this Alarm that so thou mightest be made sensible of what thou hast done and what thou hast to do For for my own part I my self have been as Zealous as thou canst be and had I had but as much Power as thou now hast I do really believe unless Conscience had flown in my face I should have done as much as thou hast done And I knowing thy conditon by mine own and by comparing my past with my present Condition I could do no less in Christian love than what I have done For