without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work passe the time of your sojourning here in feare and redeem the time for the days are evil and work out your salvation with fear and trembling which if ye doe ye shall be everlastingly blessed in the end which is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you all Therefore while you have time prize it this word doth the Lord often put into my heart unto you for the dreadful day of his fierce unresistable wrath is nigh at hand in which he wil destroy all workers of iniquity from off the earth root and branch for ever and to that man will he look who is of a humble and contrite heart trembleth at his word and only such shall obtain favour of him in that his dreadful day and controversie with all Nations therefore is he sending and hath sent his dear and precious Lambs and Servants forth to warn them that they may repent and find mercy least his vengeance overtake them and that they may be lest without excuse and for this cause is this warning sent unto you O ye Protestants and inhabitants in France that ye may also be warned to fly the wrath which is even at the door for your measure of iniquity is even full and hastneth apace the finishing Therefore be awakened and warned that ye may find favour with him who will not judge according to your persons but in righteous judgement will he judge you even from the King that sitteth upon the Throne unto the slave that grindeth at the mill and neither money nor favour shall be able to deliver any therefore that ye may repent and find mercy is the true and faithfull desire of my soul to the Lord for you my Countrey-men whom the Lord hath warned to warn you and hath shewed me his silly worm the evil and the good which shall surely come upon you who in love and faithfulnesse to God and your Souls hath not concealed it from you whether you doe embrace or reject his love and counsell which is freely tendred unto you that so in the day of account with my Maker I may be found clear of your blood and the blood of all men which if I had it would be too heavy for me to bear for the Lord would require it at my hands who hath called me from a far countrey where I was an inhabitant about fourteen yeares untill this work was laid on me to visit you Protestants in and about Paris but ye rejected me and despised me and would not permit me to declare my message of love unto you which was from the Lord and not my own in testimony of which I was ready to seal it with my blood but seeing ye would not receive it from the Lord who called me from the Indians in America to minister and serve the Indians elswhere in his truth and gospel I shall be clear of your blood for ever and at my return from Paris the Lord laid it upon me to write this testimony unto you before he would suffer me to go out of your Nation and happy will ye be if ye receive it but if ye wilfully reject it as ye did me and contemned my person then wo will come upon you from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for evermore Therefore Countrey-men I beseech you in the bowels of endlesse and unfeigned love for ever in and with the same the Lord hath loved me to lay it to heart for my God is a consuming fire who will not in any wise condemn the innocent nor acquit the guilty for with him alone dwelleth equity and justice which is the habitation of his Throne for ever which you shall be made partakers of who turn to him and peace shall never depart out of your habitation Let this thing be considered by all who love their souls for what will it avail you to win the whole world and lose your own souls is there any thing below the Sun but what is vanity and vexation of Spirit and must come to an end nay verily there is not therefore spend not your precious time any longer in taking care what you shall eat or what you shall drink or what you shall put on for all these things such seek after who know not God but cast your care upon God who will care for you if ye come to walk and live in his holy fear and seek not honor one of another but only that honour which comes from him so will ye honour him and he will make you truly honourable in the midst of a rebellious and stiff-necked people and seek not to lay up treasures on earth but first seek ye the Kingdome of Heaven and all things which are needfull for you shall be added unto you for if the Lord taketh care for the birds of the aire how much more will he take care for those who put their trust and confidence in him therefore spend not your time in chambering and wantonnesse neither make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof for the lust warreth against the soul but be ye sober and watch for the day of the Lord will come upon you as a thief in the night and he will call you to an account of your stewardship and how you have spent his money for every one hath a manifestation of the spirit given him to profit withall which he must give an account to his Lord of for that 's the talent and wo be to him that hath not been faithful to improve it but the diligent hand maketh rich and he which hath been faithful to a little shall be made ruler over much so consider seriously how you spend your time and whose money you are improving and to what use you put it to for accordingly shall your reward be Therefore Friends as in the sight of the living God in whom I live and serve with my Spirit I am very plain with you recommending my self to every mans conscience in the sight of God that I have not hid the counsel of God from you so far as he hath made it manifest to me concerning you neither have I gone to heal your hurt deceitfully nor sowed pillars under your arm-holes nor daubed you with untempered morter as the false prophets do crying peace peace to the wicked but as the Lord hath shewed me the sword of his wrath which is ready to be sheathed in the bowels of the wicked I have in faithfulnesse warned you of it that ye might escape it by turning from the evil of your wayes for by no other way or meanes can you possibly escape it therefore let not me be counted your enemy for telling you the truth knowing that the reproof of a friend is better than the kisse of an enemy and an open reproof is better than secret love therefore saith David Let the righteous smite me and it shall be as an ointment upon my head and you will
glory of his renown shall go over all which shall strike dread unto his enemies he will thresh the mountaines to dust before him and the wicked shall be but as the stubble which is dried before the fire and shall be consumed for ever he who is mightier then the mightiest will doe this he even he before whom all Nations are but as the drop of a Bucket and weigheth the hills in a scale and the mountains in a ballance and measureth the waters in the hollow of his hand will accomplish the thing which he hath purposed and the word which is gone out of his mouth for as the rain which falleth upon the Earth and returneth not again so is the word of the Lord which is gone out of his mouth which shall not return but shall accomplish his purpose which is to subdue all the Kingdomes of this World into the subjection of his own only anointed seed to live and reign over all and in all who is blessed for evermore in whom all the promises of the father are Yea and Amen for the promise was not unto many but unto the seed when he spake unto Abraham the Father of the faithfull In thy Seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed which Seed is Christ which shall have the Dominion in all and over all for ever Let him which readeth understand The Government shall be put upon his shoulder and who will not willingly subject unto it shall be beaten to pieces with his Iron Rod with which he shall rule all Nations and this is the little stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands which became a great mountain and covered the whole Earth which hastneth apace to be fulfilled even so saith my Soul Amen and Amen And for the fulfilling of this his glorious word the Lord will not onely shake the Earth but the Heavens also and will Overturn Overturn Overturn Kings Princes and Powers even all those who shall rise up against him and will tear them in pieces as he hath already apparently done when the Lord will work who shall lett the Heathen may rage and the people imagine a vain thing and the Judges of the Earth may take counsell against the Lord and against his Anointed but all in vain for he will exalt him to reign upon his holy hill of Sion for evermore in the sight of all his enemies to their utter overthrow and confusion for ever Your Judges shall be restored as at the first and Counsellers as at the beginning who will not judg for gift nor reward the wicked shall no more be called good nor the churle liberall light shall not be put for darknesse nor darknesse for light but all shall be judged by him who seeth in secret and who lives for ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion of which there is no end Therefore come to the just in you all in the particular even to the Seed of God in you all which of his infinite mercy he hath left in you else long ere now had ye been destroyed and made like unto Sodom and Gomorrah but for his seed sake hath he withheld his hand from destroying you untill this day and consider the end of Sodom and the inhabitants thereof and their end when the just was taken from amongst them and even as it was with them so shall it be with you if you harden your hearts and will not hear the Lord will take the just Seed from you which suffereth dayly by you and is oppressed in you even as a Cart which is pressed and loaden with sheaves and grieved as the just was in Sodom by their unrighteous and ungodly conversation and if it be once taken away from you though the faithfull may make intercession for you as Abraham did for them yet as sure as the Lord God of Heaven and Earth lives your end shall be as theirs for if once the just in you be taken away nought but fury and vengeance will be poured upon you from Heaven untill you be utterly swallowed up with the eternall flames of Gods fury and vengeance for evermore for whose sake I am now moved to warn you from the wrath which is to come and if you refuse and reject and despise his everlasting Messengers as they did take them for an example for God hath made them so of his wrath to all who shall reject his loving kindnesse mercy and counsel Therefore in bowels of mercy and pity am I drawn forth again and again to warn you and advise and beseech you to turn unto the just pure holy principle of God in you and give up to be guided by it and governed by it in all things that ye may be leavened into its own nature even the incorruptible nature of God that ye may come to witnesse the new creature which is the first Resurrection over which the second Death hath no power and as many of you as come to walk according to this rule peace will be unto you and with you for ever peace which the world can neither give nor take from you even the peace of God which will rule in your hearts which will keep your hearts and minds spotlesse and blamelesse for ever and the power of the crosse of Christ you will come to witnesse to be the power of God unto salvation as you believe and are subject unto it whereby the world will become crucified unto you and you unto the world and nothing else will you desire to glory in but will come even to be ashamed of those things which ye now delight in and have no more pleasure in them nor fashion your selves as you did in the former time of ignorance as the Heathen did in vain and foolish habit idle and foolish talk such things will be an abomination unto the Lord of your life by whom ye breath and nothing can or will proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying and according to the promise of God you will come to witnesse even the pouring out of his Spirit upon you and your Sons and your daughters shall prophecy your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and every one of you shall sit under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and none shall make you affraid and you will not need to go to men for teaching nor every one say to his neighbour know the Lord for all of you shall know him from the least unto the greatest and shall say one to another come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walk in his light for ever and the Lord will make a hedg about you and set his holy Angels to watch over you and prune you that as ye come to bring forth fruit unto him ye may bring it forth more abundantly to the honour and delight of the Lord will ye be for ever which
can do nothing I am the Vine saith Christ and ye are the branches and my Father is the husbandman and every branch which bringeth not forth fruit my Father cutteth it off and casteth it into the fire but every branch which bringeth forth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more abundantly so abide in me saith he the light of the world for in him only is their fruit found to be accepted So read try and consider in whom ye are and whether ye are in the true Vine yea or nay if not your state is miserable and ye are yet in your sins Therefore cease from your hireling teachers and learn of Christ the pure light in you and you will come to witness a teacher continually with you Which will never be removed into a corner any more but your ear shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it turn neither to the right hand nor to the left which if once witnessed ye will abhor all hireling teachers for ever and being come to know the voice of the true Shepherd of your souls ye will witnesse the pure holy teachings of the holy God lying down and rising up directing you in the pure holy and undefiled path of peace in which no Lions whelp can tread and this to witnesse is the end of all Ministrations Types and shadows whatsoever the life and substance being witnessed in you even Christ Jesus the Light the Covenant of God which is given a Covenant of Light unto all Nations that he might be his Salvation unto the ends of the earth which is the only true Cistern that is able to hold water for your souls And John did bear witness in like manner of him saying He was the true light which inlightned every one that came into the world and the light is the life of men and as you come to the light you will witness it so and not before ye know his life to abide in you which light being received and followed you will receive power to become the sons of God even a birth which is not of man nor of the will of man but of God which only is loved so the sons of God you will witnesse to be and his holy Spirit you will be lead by For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and they who have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his Therefore I say again and again try whose ye are for if you have not the Spirit of Christ you are none of the sons of God but of the Devil These are true and plain words unto you all that ye may not be any longer deceived nor trust to lying vanities any longer and forsake your own mercies which is freely tendred unto you of the Lord in this the day of his love wherein he doth invite you freely to come unto him Without money and without pride that ye may eat and drink and be satisfied at the Rivers of his pleasures and not to spend your labour and precious time for nought for your time is but short and the measure of your iniquitie is even up amongst the sons of men and the Angel of his wrath is even ready to smite Therefore be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and God Almighty will accept you for verily I have seen the wrath of the Lord breaking forth against this Nation and it was very terrible Therefore stand not as you love your immortal souls to contend about words or any outward thing but come to the light that ye may witnesse life that so your covering may only be the pure Spirit of the Lord thereby to have a hiding place in him else the sword of his indignation and wrath you will never be able to escape but it will cut you off for ever with all the unclean and uncircumcised of the earth Therefore be ye not mockers nor despisers least ye perish for the Lord is working a work in these dayes that such cannot believe though it were told them and this is a true warning and testimony of Gods everlasting love in and through one that is a witness thereof and a friend to all souls And now that you may read and seriously consider into what a sad state you are fallen from the Image of him that created you is the desire of my heart and come for to be restored again into the same dominion for all are degenerated into the plant of a strange Vine bringing forth wild fruit contrary to the expectation of the good husbandman and to the grieving of his righteous soul for read and consider He planted a Vineyard and fenced it about and pruned it and cast the stones out of it and expected it should bring forth fruit as I have said but it brought forth wild fruit what could I have done more for my Vineyard saith the Lord. Here all the sons of men may consider their condition which is truly sad and miserable though they are so setled upon the Lees of iniquity that they do not consider it as it is written There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh God they are all gone out of the way they have been made altogether unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their throat is an open sepulchre they have used their tongues to deceit the poison of aspes is under their lips Rom. 3.11 Yea they commit iniquity with greedinesse even as the Ox drinketh in water their table is full of vomit and there is no soundnesse in them they conceive mischief in the night upon their bed and rise early in the morning to put it in practice and say in their hearts the Lord seeth us not our mouthes are our own who shall us controll they lye in waite privily for the innocent and lay a snare in secret for him O! what a sad and dolefull condition are the sons of men fallen into yea there is no fear of God before their eyes Eating and drinking and rising up to play marrying and giving in marriage and all in the lust and uncleanness the seed of the evil one being head in them nought but pride and oppression is brought forth envy and malice yea the best of men is but a lyer every one seeking by fraud and deceit to exalt his own horn and seeking to maintain his own carkase in great honour and dignity and he which is stronger then his neighbour will take all advantages against him to bring him under him and to bow to his will O woful state and hard to be declared is the degeneration of fallen man from his Creator who at first created him in his own Image and likenesse in holinesse and purity to reign over all the works of his hands in the power and wisdome of his Creator and had put all things in subjection under him and knew the right use of every thing he standing in the dominion and wisdome of God and to
be not Ministers of Satan And whether they in effect do not prefer the power of Satan to be greater to keep people in sin than the power of Christ is to redeem and set at liberty from sin yea or nay Whether the Cross of Christ be not the power of God unto Salvation to every one who believes through which all who live in it come to be crucified to the world and the world to them And whether any be true Disciples of of Christ but those who witnesse it and bear it dayly about with them and follow Christ taking him for their perfect example in all things yea or nay Whether do not they who are true Ministers of Christ turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God And whether are not they who are so turned come to witnesse that which was before Satans power was or sin either yea or nay Whether doth not all true Ministers of Christ Jesus bring people off from mans teaching and wisdom unto Christ the wisdome of God and his teaching And whether he doth not bring them to the Anointing in them which is the gift of God so that they need not mans teaching yea or nay And whether all they are not Ministers of Satan who Preach and teach otherwise whose eyes are full of Adultery and cannot cease from sin while they promise to others liberty they themselves are not servants unto corruption yea or nay And whether they be not such of whom the Apostle speaketh Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth teaching things they ought not for filthy lucre sake who have not the word they speak from the Lord but seek it every one of his neighbour and against whom the Lord is yea or nay These things being truly of absolute concernment for every one who sincerely desireth salvation to their immortal souls to know and be rightly informed therein therefore I propound them unto you to be answered by the heads and wise amongst you who seem to be pillars to the rest that thereby your Priests and Teachers may manifest themselves whether they are true Ministers of Christ yea or nay which will appear by their answer if they are the spiritual weaponed men Who wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities and spiritual wickednesses in high places which captivates the creature and keeps him in bondage and corruption for to no other end are these propounded unto them but that truth may appear and the simple come to be instructed and that they may come to be redeemed from the power of their adversary the Devil Who goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devoure and that righteousness and truth may be set up amongst the sons of men for God of a truth will be known to be greater in power to deliver his creature from sin then the Devil is to keep them in sin and this work hath the Lord already begun in the earth and will hasten to finish it for his own glory sake for the glory of his renown shall go over all and his name shall be dreadfull among the heathen and greatly feared and honoured of all them who put their trust in him who are and shall be the onely blessed for evermore But the wicked shall be turned into hell and all who forget God Therefore O ye Protestants in France to whom these things are sent I charge you all in the power and vertue of the living God who hath created the Heavens and the earth as you shall answer it in the dreadful day of account not to slight these things but receive them as they are given forth to you and if your Priests shall withstand it let them answer those plain demands which are propounded in it that so Gods eternal truth may stand over all for ever and let their answer be sent to any of the people of the Lord called Quakers in England And they your Teachers who say they have the charge of your souls and receive wages of you under that pretence I shall yet adde this Query unto them for to answer What the soul of man is And as you prize the salvation of your souls mind these things and cease from man in time whose breath is in his nostrills for whereof is he to be accounted and come all to God alone for teaching who hath promised to teach his people himself which is his true living and everlasting Covenant with his people for ever which the people in England called Quakers do witnesse glory and immortal praise be unto him for ever who hath manifested his name power and glory amongst them as in the days of old by which he hath struck dread unto their enemies and set them as a Signet on the Crown of his head and hath put a new Song in their mouths even the Song of Moses and of the Lamb for he hath manifestly overthrown their enemies in their sight and will do the like for you O ye Protestants and inhabitants of this Nation if ye hear and obey his voice in this the day of his Almighty power which if ye do happy happy happy will ye be and your posterity for evermore but if ye refuse then cursed cursed cursed will ye be from his holy pure presence for evermore which is his eternal word unto you all and thus far I shall be clear of your blood if ye perish Remember Korah Dathan and Abiram who perished in their gain-saying and in love and bowels of pity I say be ye warned betimes Truly friends I was a man as ye are subject unto all manner of vanity which was under the Sun passing my time in Singing and Musick foolish talking and idle jesting and so was a captive to sin and Satan untill the Lord out of the boundlesse riches of grace and mercy towards me and many more in those remote parts of the earth where I dwelt who had as large a talk of Christ and what he did and suffered at Jerusalem sixteen hundred years since as any people as ever yet I came nigh and could talk of Faith in Christ and being saved by grace and the like while his pure grace was turned from by us and we in wantonnesse and the grace of God which was freely bestowed upon us was our condemnation and in this lost and undone state the Lord sent one of his messengers who declared the way and path of holinesse unto us whose message was light and that Christ Jesus had enlightned every one of us with his true light which condemned us for sin and evil in our consciences from our youth up and if we heeded this light it would lead us up to God and we should know him alone to be our teacher This was the message of glad tidings unto us and their feet were beautifull upon the mountains who brought it and I may truly say blessed be the day of their going out with the message of peace in their mouth for