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A84796	A message from the Lord, to the Parliament of England. That you may all take warning, and be ye all forewarned, that you act not in the steps of your forefathers, whom the Lord hath cast out as an abominable thing, as he hath done all rulers in all ages and generations, which have sought themselves, and established laws in their own wills, whereby the just have suffered, and now do suffer: the people which the Lord hath chosen are trodden upon, and the powers of the earth have set themselves against the mighty power of the Lord in them. But now is the Lord arising to plead the cause of the just, and woe for ever to all Sions adversaries. / By him who is a lover of your souls, and a lover of Israels common-wealth, whom the Lord is returning out of captivity, to serve him in their own land in perfect freedom. Geo. Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1863; Thomason E812_2; ESTC R202175	14,507	15

Christ forbids saying Be not ye called of men Master for you have one Master oven Christ and ye are all brethren This Master we own who hath conquered death and the grave and the prison and hell and temptations ascended far above all Principalities and Powers blotted out the hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us who are in the spirit And this is the Master the one Master Christ Jesus and all are brethren who are here but who are in the Flesh are in the hand-writing of Ordinances and Commands but such are out of the spirit and they are not contrary to them and such Teachers as are here are called of men Master and yet profess Christ but your cloak will not cover you your nakedness and skirts are seen with the eternal light of Christ which comprehends the world which is the worlds condemnation And such take Tythes of the poor people and cause them to be haled before Courts and Sessions which will not give it them which witnesseth the second Priesthood Jesus Christ and sees that the first Priesthood is changed which took tythes and the Law is changed also which gave it them so many do suffer the spoyling of their goods with such that have the name of Christians Magistrates and Teachers which say they are Jews but are not which are and were the Synagogue of Satan for the Priests that took Tythes had a Store-house and the people were to bring their Tythes and fill it and the strangers widows and fatherless were to come within the Priests gates and be satisfied and filled and the Priest was to Minister it forth to them that no beggar might be in Israel And the Priest was to Minister it forth out of the Store-house a figure of the everlasting Priest who Ministers out of the everlasting treasury Now see if you with your Law have a Store-house which gives the Priests Tythes and all the widows strangers and fatherless come within the Priests gates and he to Minister forth to them that no beggar be in England as was none to be in Israel Let the first Covenant judge your practice and your Law and Priests both and shew your nakedness of it which was a figure of him who was to come If you should have a Store-house and put the peoples Tythes in with your Law and the Priests Minister it forth to the strangers widows and fatherless and no beggar be in England as no beggar was to be in Israel then you might not own Christ Jesus to be come in the Flesh but hold up the first Priesthood which all who witness Christ Jesus to be come in the Flesh witness the change of it as his Disciples Ministers and Apostles did who confessed Christ Jesus the unchangable Priest and denyed the changable Therefore they suffered persecution stoning stocking prisoning buffeting beating and reproaches and shameful threatnings as which is in England at this time by them which call themselves Christians and whose goods are spoyled them which confess the unchangable and deny the changable Priesthood that takes Tythes Now if you do say give Caesar his due Caesar shall have his due in his place but this not to hold up the figure And you that are Caesars are not of the Kingdom of Christ but against him Now if you do say Christ saith You pay Tythe of Cummin Mint and Aunise these things ought you to have done We say the same they ought to have been done but woe unto them for they were blind that strained at a knat and swallowed a Camel as Christ saith the weightier matters of the Law were neglected as Faith Judgement and Mercy had they been in the faith judgement and mercy they would have seen Christ the unchangable Priest the end of Tythe of Annise Mint and Cummin which was afore Christ Jesus came in the Flesh so he came and witnessed the figures in their places but when he was sacricrificed up the Apostles preached him the unchangable Priest and said the Priesthood was changed and the Law also which were witnesses of Christs Ministers of the spirit which saw the ministration of condemnation which was glorious in its time and place but the Ministry of the spirit exceeds in glory and herein is a destruction and to you this is the word of the Lord And such Teachers are held up and have been held up as act contrary to the light of Christ with such as act contrary to the light of Christ as are hirelings which the Lord sent Micah to cry against who was in the light and such Judges who Judge for reward and such Teachers as Teach for hire and Prophets as Prophesie for money and Preach peace to the people but such as do not put into their mouths they prepare war against them and sue them at the Law and profess themselves Christians and Christian Teachers and Ministers of the Gospel O cover your lips for shame and stop your mouths for ever Micah was in the light who was sent to cry out against such things and Christ Jesus who is the light hath enlightned us with his light to see such things now in England stop your mouths for ever making profession of Christ and the Prophets and act such things as the Lord sent his Prophet to cry against And such Teachers as act contrary to the light of Christ are held up in the Nation with the light of Christ Iesus they are seen which the Prophets in the light were sent to cry against which makes a prey upon the people eats the fat and cloaths with the wool and kill them that were fed Ezek. 34. And such as seek for their gain from their quarter greedy dumb dogs which never have enough which the Lord sent Isaiah to cry against who was in the light and such as bear rule by their means are held up with many which are called Magistrates and the people love to have it so which the Priests what they were to do were to do freely and not for hire a figure of Iesus Christ offering up himself freely Shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this O! a horrible and filthy thing is committed in the Land Priests bear rule by their means and people love to have it so hath not the Lord visited here in England for these things and he will visit for such things and be avenged on such a Nation as this a foolish people which have eyes and see not ears and hear not hearts and cannot understand Fear ye not me saith the Lord God will ye not tremble at my presence who have placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea for a perpetual decree that the waves thereof cannot pass O ye sottish children which hold up such things who are wise to do evil but to do good have no understanding Ier. 4.5 And these are the Teachers that said the Steeple-house is the Church and say the Letter is the light the

that hate it for this is the condemnation the light and to you this is the word of God G.F. ALL the world is out of order which hath not the life of the Law and the life of the Gospel People Magistrates and Ministers though they have the words of the Law and the words of the Gospel It s the life that gave forth the Law and the life of the Gospel that keeps in order the course of nature and gives to every thing its rest and peace that hath been burthened and gives every thing its due and portion that goes out of its place which cumbers the ground which stains the earth that it doth not enjoy her rest nor her Sabbaths nor yield her increase But for Cams sake who is wroth whose countenane falls who is the vagabond and fugitive doth not abide in the command of God who hath no habitation in the Lord for his sake the ground is cursed who slayes the righteous blood as it is written and all workers of iniquity from Christ must depart which goes out of the command of God are cursed from Christ Go ye cursed saith Christ And all ye which would know the life take heed to the light which Christ Iesus hath enlightned you withall and love it It will lead you to Christ Iesus the life and all you that would know the way to salvation stand still in the light which comes from Christ your strength is to stand still and with the light you will see Christ Iesus the Saviour and there is your way to salvation but you that hate the light which comes from Christ and acts contrary to the light all that ever you do invent and act in the changeable mind now with it the light which shews you the secrets of your hearts and your secret thoughts and all the time you have spent and all your actions you have done in time with the light which comprehends time and shews you all your actions done in time contrary to the light with the light you and all your actions are to be condemned which is eternal and never changes vvhich comprehends time to you this is the vvord of God Novv you have time prize it this is the day of your visitation he that loves the light vvhich comes from Christ Iesus and witnesses the unchangable Priest Christ Iesus is his way But he that hates the light hates Christ and turns to the changeable Priests Judes is his way to perdition and not Christ for when he forsook Christ who was the way he turned to the changable Priest so Christ was not his way nor is not their way now that do so which takes Tythes And all you that put repentance afar off and live in profanness i● your life time safe and full and say at what time soever a sinner doth repent the Lord will be merciful and bring the Scripture for you cloak and despise that which is pure which calls to repentance dayly the light of Christ for he calls sinners to repentance Esaus end is yours he sought it with tears and there was no place of repentance found Therefore consider and harden not your hearts while it is to day hear his voyce which calls you to repentance that you may receive refreshing to your souls and an entrance may be made t● the inheritance that never fades away where nothing that is unclean shall enter and to you this is the word of the Lord. The word of the Lord God to all you that puts your cleansing off till after death in another world and lives in pleasures here in your life time faring sumptuously every day Dives like his end is yours mind what a cleansing he had in the fire torment and then it was said to him O man remember thy life past thou livedst in ease and pleasures Therefore consider consider put not the evil day afar off nor the good day afar off for woe is unto such as you may read in the Scripture Now you that do think we do deny Magistrates and the Ministers of Christ such we own which receive freely from Christ and freely do give which are sent into the world to gather out of the world up to Christ and such the Law was not made for but for sinners and transgressors and that Law that takes hold upon such we own which transgresses the pure light of God and such as are in the Lord we honour for such we know Iudge for God and respect no mans person but Iudge him that doth and to you this is the word of the Lord. G. F. To all you Powers of the Earth TO the light of Christ in your consciences which he hath enlightned you withal to it I speak that in it you may see your selves and what you do and what you have done and with it you may see to what condition the Scriptures were spoken and with it you might have them opened Christ saith unto the Pharisees You pay Tythe of Mint Annise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law Iudgement Mercy and Faith these things ye ought to have done and not to leave the other undone That was a time when Mint Annise and Cummin were to be paid though Iudgement Mercy and Faith weighter matters were neglected for had they been in the faith they would have seen him who was the end of all outward Figures and Ceremonies and have been in the weightier matters of the Law these being neglected though they paid the Tythe of Mint Annise and Cummin yet the woe was upon them and that was a time when Christ spoke that to the Pharisees which had the Figures and told them these things ye ought to have done for he came to fulfill them and shewed forth and witnessed every thing in its place When Christ jesus was sacrificed upon the everlasting offering he blotted out the hand-writing of Ordinances which are against us which are in the spirit and witness the everlasting Priesthood and New Covenant and triumpheth over them and the Apostle which preached Christs resurrection said that the Priesthood was changed that had a command to receive Tythes and he preached the unchangable Priest and the Law was changed also so to you all ye powers of the Earth that give the Priests Tythes and brings this Scripture as Christ saith These things ye ought to have done yeare the blind and do not see nor believe Christ come in the flesh the everlasting offering who puts an end to these things as the Pristhood that receives Tythes and so they deny Christ come in the Flesh and do not witness Christ the unchangable Pristhood but are in the state of the Scribes and Pharisees paying Tythe and do not believe Christ nor him to be come in the flesh as the Scribes and Pharisees did not And anotehr Scripture you bring as Christ saith Whatsoever they bid you do that do and observe but they say and do not therefore the woe was upon them but do ye not after

is the word of the Lord God he that Judges for God respects no mans person but judges him that doth for he that doth goes from the pure light of Christ in him and defiles the flesh which light would keep his mind to God and that which goes into the flesh which would have a gift which blinds the eye which is the light the light of the body is the eye and this eye being single the body is full of light so all of you dwell in this light I do you warn and charge and command in the presence of the living God that with it all your minds may be kept up to Christ from whence it comes if not this is your condemnation the light and remember you are warned in your life time before destruction come upon you who act contrary to the light and to you all this is the word of the Lord God And to you all that are friends of God the word of the Lord God to you to the light of God in all you I do speak that you may come to witness the measure of God stand up for the truth and be bold and valiant that is it which never changeth wait I charge you in the presence of the living God that you may be led with the spirit of God up to God and with it comprehend the world that you may witness that which will never wither you who err from the pure spirit of the Lord Balaam is your way your fruit withers and in Cains way from the command of God which are wroth such their countenance falls such are murderers of the just and slayers and persecuters such their fruit withers who goes from the command and hath no habitation in the Lord but are vagabonds and fugitives as Cain was and such as err from the pure spirit of the Lord within such speak great swelling words have mens persons in admiration because of advantage such Teachers speaks evil of dignity and dispise dominion and such defile the flesh and what they know they know naturally who turn from the command and erre from the spirit whose fruit withers who saith that Hebrew Greek and Latine is the original before Babell was all the earth was of one language and Nimrod the cunning hunter before the Lord which came out of cursed Hams stock the beginner and builder of Babell whom God confounded into many languages and this say they is the original who erred from the Spirit and the Command And Pilate had this original Hebrew Greek and Latine which crucified Christ and set over him and such are they which say so who go in Cains way envy slay and persecute and in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards the wages of unrighteousness which what they know they know naturally who err from the spirit and turn into the many languages and what they knovv they know naturally in those things they corrupt themselves vvhich are the men ordained of old for this condemnation And this is the condemnation the light saith Christ and to you this is the vvord of the Lord God And dwell in the light I warn and charge you all in the presence of the living God that you may be made manifest to the light in all consciences which respects no mans person he that doth is convinced with the light to be a Transgressor of the Law of God And he that dwells in the light faithfull and just holy and good hates covetousness fearing the Lord beareth not his sword in vain is a terror to all them that do evil for he hates the light that doth evil so his law is upon him that acts contrary to the light that judges for God Thou shalt not rail nor speak evil upon the Rulers of the People for that which doth transgresses the Law of God and acts contrary to the light of God that speak evil and rail upon them which dwell in the light of Christ which hath received the Law from God which is according to the light of Christ in every mans conscience which Law is a terror to him that evil doth for he acts contrary to the light and with it he is condemned and judged with the Law of God and to the light in all your consciences I speak when you are forming and contriving and fetching things up in your minds and to bring things according to your own wills and purpose there is a light in all your consciences which will shew you the folly burdens and cumbrances and troubles of these things and Martha cumbred with many things Therefore to the light in you I speak the one thing you may come to witness and with it sit at Jesus feet and with it all the other must be condemned and judged eternally as you may see the withering and fading of it past before you And now you are coming together to sit in Council the Lord God fear that you may see what you take in hand to the light in all your consciences I speak If you act contrary to it you will be cut down the terror of the Lord God will be upon you that with it your minds may be guided up to him and you come to witness that which shall never wither nor ever change who turneth from it doth not stand in Gods Council nor turn people from their evil ways but doth protect and hold up that which God is against and doth forbid and hath forbidden in ages past such as profess themselves to be Teachers which he hath sent his Prophets his Apostles and his Son to cry against such Teachers are in England now and are and have been holden up by such Magistrates as profess themselves to be Christian Magistrates such Teachers they are as go in Cains way in envy to slay the innocent and righteous blood and in Balaams way from the spirit of the living God which receives gifts and rewards the wages of unrighteousness and many have been with your Laws and Inventions made to suffer to give them means and Tythes according to the first Priesthood And all this is out of Christs way who is the way and all his Ministers way and is to be condemned with the light all such be to the light in all your consciences I speak that with it you may come to know Christ who is the Way and Balaams way and Cains way which is for the sword woe and condemnation take heed of propagating that which is cursed from God eternally to the light in your consciences I speak you are now warned in your life time And such Teachers are propagated and held up as Ministers of the Gospel which our Lord Jesus Christ cryed woe against and with his light them we do see and him witness and do witness against such as he cryed woe against who are not in his way nor in his command but in the Scribes and Pharisees way and seats chiefest seats in the Assemblies stand praying in the Synagogues called of men Master which our Lord Jesus