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A66857	From the shepherd of Israel, to the Bishops in England with some queries and councell to all courtiers, and judges, &c, that they incense not King Charles against the Lords heritage : also, the breathings of the seed, and crie of his own elect, that his people may be preserved, which he cannot but hear, because of the incercession of his spirit, poured out upon his off-spring : this I believe, therefore I speak : also, the arise of the beast, false prophet, and anti-christ, and who they are, and what their work is, declared : and the everlasting gospell preached again to all nations, kindreds and people, and the beast and false prophet, which deceived them taken and destroyed, the accuser of the brethren cast out, and judged / given forth by Humphry Woolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3292; ESTC R15081	14,691	16

will give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth and that they may Recover themselves out of the Snare of the Devil who were taken Captiveby him at his will Ver. 10. Therefore saith Paul I endure all things for the Elects sake that they may obtain the Salvation that is in Christ Jesus with Eternal Glory And now ye Bishops Doctors and Teachers and all such that handle the Law Do ye all stand still awhile weigh your selves in the true Ballance measure your selves with the Measure of the Spirit that God hath freely given to every one of you that by it ye may be saved from Sin and led into all Truth I say all confider is this the Crown ye aim at the Salvation of the Immortal Souls O that there were such a heart in you that was in Christ Jesus that Bishop or the same mind in you that was in Paul Titus and Timothy that laboured watched day and night that they might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus for whose sake saith Paul I suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him yea those things which were gain I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge that is in Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 3.8 Saith he That I may be found in him marke in him whose Kingdom Power and Glory is not of this world Not having my own Righteousnes that is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ Ver. 10. That I may know him and the Power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his Sufferings Mark him that was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief and had not a place to lay his head in Read Isa 53.3 Luke 9.58 being made conformable to his death but Paul with weeping complaineth of some Phil. 3. ver 18. that were of another mind Whose God was their bellies who minded earthly things and did glory in that which might have been looked on by them as their shame whose end was destruction but saith he ver 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour O Friends Do nothing without consideration and a little consider this great matter Is this the end ye take these Offices of Bishops upon you that ye may watch for the souls of the poor scattered Sheep and save the afflicted and dispised Lambs of Christ by them that are at ease O this is a great work if ye leave it not undone Or is this the Prize ye run for and the Mark ye aim at then would the Lord stablish you and the most Highest himself will be your Shepherd and a Shelter and hiding place unto you But if the world its Honour and Glory be coveted after by you as the Nation feareth it is too much then will the Lord arise for your destruction and as a Whirl-wind from the most highest Shall it suddenly come upon you and as a mighty Tempest great and terrible against the wall and as a sweeping Rain that leaveth no food and his Lambs will he save and his People and Heritage he will himself deliver your portion shall be as in the book of the Psalms It is written Acts 1.20 Psal 69.25 Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his Bishoprick let another take Now this was Judas the Traitor that was both a Bishop and Minister for the work is one For he was numbred with the Apostles mark Judas numbred and chosen by Christ and took part of the Ministry with the Apostles a thing that ye never came to as yet but he cared not for the soul the poor were dispised by him but like Balaam and many now adayes that are falsly called Ministers of Christ he loved the reward of Iniquity and with that he purchased a field which is called the field of blood to this day And falling down headlong he burst asunder in the middest and his bowels gushed out Let this be the reward of the wicked from the Lord and the Recompence of the Persecutor from the God of my Salvation but the Righteous let him be saved by the Lord with an everlasting Salvation from my God because he is poor and despised and abhorred of men and hath no deliverer in the earth O Watchman of Israel O Shepherd of the Sheep that have followed thee and for thy Names sake have been willing to lay down their own lives that in thee and thy life they may be found blameless and preserved spotless O! Do thou arise thou great Shepherd of the everlasting Covenant save thy-people preserve thy Lambs and in thy Armes carry them that are young preserve the feeble and such as be of a contrite Heart and Spirit that none may touch thy hidden and anointed ones so as to harm them in their inward parts or wound them in their hidden life O! Be thou abiding place unto them in the Storm and a Light in their Tabernacles when darkness covers their Enemies that so in their Spirits thy Sons may sing together and the morning Stars make Mellodie unto thee in their hearts and the inhabitants of Sion shout for joy that the Lord is in the midst of them Do this for thy heritage and forsake them not Eternall God we have heard with our ears O Lord the triumphing of the wicked is short O let it not be said by them for ever Where is now their God But Arise arise as in the dayes of old and worke wonders for thy seeds sake as in the antient time when thou didst march through the Sea with thy chosen and didst get thee a Name of praise from the foundation of Israel So let it be with thy Enemies O Lord as of old when the Stars in their course fought against Sisera O Friends I am a Lover of your Souls and the eye is open and opening daily in thousands and a numerous number begin to see the sad state they have been long in O the Lord hath done a wonder and a marvellous work he hath wrought in this our day which is dawned the Day-Star is risen in the hearts of thousands and the day that is everlasting is dawned and in England the sun is risen that shall never set again the light thereof shineth shall shine more and more untill the perfect day which the Clouds of the evening nor the shaddow of the Mountains shall never cover again the Lyon is rouzed the Beasts of the field shall tremble the Lord is working and who shall hinder or let him The Light is the eye which seeth this day which was open in Abraham and in his Head who is invisible and eternall who saith Before Abraham was I am This eye must be opened and looked with in you Bishops and the eye that doth offend and persecute the precious Life phickt out and cast away and the hand cut off and the Right Arm of the wicked broken before the everlasting Arm which

all thy work and contrary to the Apostles Doctrine which saith I fear I have bestowed on you labour in vain while ye observe Dayes New-Moons and Sabbath Which were but a Shaddow of good things to come but the body was Christ Collossians 2.17 18. Secondly Whether it be not in your hearts who are laying such a foundation for Persecution to fill London and the Nation with Innocent blood as Manasses did Jerusalem if suffered by the Lord Thirdly Whether Christ be the Light that hath enlightened every man or the Grace that hath appeared unto every man and able to save to the uttermost able to Guide Teach and Lead into all Truth all that receive and believe in it If yea Then whether all Shepherds Doctors Bishops and Teachers whatsoever that make it not there work to turn peoples minds to the light within be not false Shepherds and such as Jeremy Esay Ezekiel and Mied cryed against who said He was given for a Covenant of light for a teacher and leader of his people that he might be Salvation to the ends of the earth Isa 2.6 7. Isa 49.6 9. Who also prophesied That the Nations which were saved should walke in the light of the Lord and the Gentiles should come to his light and Kings to the brightness of his Rising Isa 60.3 Isa 2.5 Fourthly And whether all such Bishops do not deny their work and seek themselves and worry the flock of Christ That set up any worship though they get a Law made by the powers of the Nation to establish it if it be not in Spirit and truth only and according to Pauls Doctrine and Work which was to turn people from the darkness to the light from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26.18 That remission of sins might be received and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified in the light in the Faith Whether it be not a vain worship being neither according to the Scriptures nor you led thereunto by the Spirit of the Lord Fiftly Whether all Worship that is taken up from the letter of the Scripture Nothing differing to the outward act from the Saints of old as singing Davids Psalmes Preaching and Praying and the like whether all this be not a vain worship and to the Lord Abomination Yea or Nay I say If not led thereto by the Eternall Spirit of the Lord Seeing God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth as it is written Joh. 4.24 Rom. 8.14 Sixtly Whether they are like to do the work of an Evangelist or perfect the Saints or bring into the Vnity of the Faith or to any measure of Christ who are not in the Light nor led by the Spirit as it giveth utterance to them that Preach seeing the Scripture saith the true Worship is in Spirit and the true Ministers spake as it gave them utterance Acts 2.4 But are Persecuting and Imprisoning about dayes the Children of the Light who walk in the substance the Everla ting day who saith Swear not at all who is the Lord of the Sabboth and the Word of the Oath which was since and before the Law Seventhly Whether this may not be for a Lamentation in England that so many thousand of the Lords people called Quakers who have lived peaceably since they were a people should now be imprisoned their bodies and goods spoyled in Dungrons Holes and Prisons so soon after the Word of a King to the contrary because we cannot forsake Christ in not meeting together and break his Command who is the Shepherd of his Sheep and Bishop of the Souls and saith Swear not at all Mat. 5.33 38. Jam. 5.12 Now let all that sear the Lord be Judge whether this be disobedience to Magistrates to be obedient to the Lord and whether God be not rather to be obeyed than man or any Commands or Lawes which are contra y to Scripture And whether the Law was added to a Righteous man or because of the unrighteous and lawless whether they that a e in Christ and walk in and spake the Truth and do righteously and as they would be done unto whether they do not fultil the Righteousness of the Law and what Law that is will harm them in this condition And now O ye Bishops Doctors and Teachers and Rulers of the people my love is to your immortal souls and issueth out towards you because of the Ruler of the people whose love is in my heart go not on to persecute an Innocent people cause them not to suffer that never had any hand in your Sufferings which you your King are lately come out of since we were a people we did never Plot or do Violence to any Government but the government of Satan in the heart and our Weapons were never Carnal since we had a being but Spiritual to the pulling down of spiritual wickedness but in the Lord we have and do honour all men and submit to all their Righteous Commands Who Rule for God and are a Terror to evil doers and Praise to them that do well to them are our souls Subject and to their Commands for the Lords sake but as for these Commands which are contrary to Scripture and the Spirit of the Lord in our hearts by Suffering shall we rather chuse to bear our Testimony against though commanded by a King or Parliament and if we suffer by them it is for Righteousness sake and not as Theives Murderers or as evil doers but as Christians And the living Lord is our Shepherd and Bishop and with him have we peace and good will towards men such as our Persecuters cannot take from us else we should have sainted before this day had not we beleived in the Lord who leads us and instrusts as by his holy spirit in the path we should go And waters and keeps us as the apple of his own eye in patience under our burden that we saint not in all our Tribulations and this is my love though I suffer for it I leave it to the Lord and his Eternal Councel to you do not lay a foundation for Persecution though it be too much laid already yet go not on think not Sion will be built with blood or Jerusalem upon the Ruin of the people whom the Lord hath blessed and chosen for his peculiar Treasure for they are the blessed of the Lord that made Heaven and Earth and they that touch them will he rebuke for their sakes as he rebuked Kings in the dayes of old saying Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm 1 Chron. 16.17 22. 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