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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

is under-neath in which the Shepherd of Israel doth carry his Lambs can be known or wrought with by you I say till this eye be opened and a new tongue be unloosed ye are but blind Watch-men and Leaders of the blind into the Ditch and horrible Pit and Dumb Shepherds that gather not the Sheep and out-cast of Israel but such as the Prophet speakes of That fed themselves with the fat and cloath with the finest of the wool and bewrayed him that wandereth ye gather not the out-cast but with force and cruelty scatter the flock which his own blood hath purchased The eye being blinded that should put a difference between the Precious and the Vile the Sheep and the Goates the Diseased and the Whole the Strong and the Weak This is a great work O Friends to watch for the soul The world by wisdom nor the learned by outward learning know not the soul of man nor what it is that the Anguish and pain is upon but he that made it knoweth the frame thereof and he that breathed into it the breath of Life his eye which is the Light seeth and knoweth it altogether such knowledge is too wonderful for me that when this eye is awakened I am satisfied therewith O blessed is that eye that seeth and is satisfied therewith O this is the eye that runs to and fro thorough the whole earth and seeth the secret thoughts of all your hearts in your bed-chambers your Councel against the Lords people is not hid from it in the darkest night that ever came he seeth our innocency and knoweth how we are wronged by being numbred with transgressors Is this the way to convert us to God as Whipping Persecuting and Imprisoning to the spoiling both of our bodies goods Well this is the way they took with Christ our Lord and Master I say thus was it in the Green tree and with the Master of the Family and generall Assembly but not to convert us were we unconverted but we are on the earth though not of it and our bodies in prison though our Spirits are at liberty and he that was dead now liveth and is ascended out of the reach of all Persecutors I say after he was who is ascended and all power in heaven and earth given unto him and he had received gifts for men having led Captivity that which did Captivate and he having spoiled Principalities and Powers by the power and virtue of his Resurrection he being ascended which first descended into the lowest parts of the earth he that was in the the pit death hell and the grave being made a little lower than the Angels I say when he was glorified with the same glory he had with the Father before the world of iniquity began then he gave some Apostles Bishops and Teachers Mark not Lord Bishops over the faith of Gods heritage but for the perfecting of the Saints and edifying the body of Christ untill they all came into the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man in Christ Mark untill he be formed unto the measure and Stature of the fulness of Christ that they should be no more Children tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine to turn again into such beggarly Rudements as the observing of dayes new Moones or Sabboths or abstaining from meats the forbidding of which the Apostle calls a Doctrine of Devills which God hath created and commanded to be eaten and nothing to be refused by them that are come to Christ and in him believe who is the Body and End of all Shadows and the Word that Sanctifies the Meats who is the Everlasting day in which the Children of the Light do walk as it is written and witnessed in these latter dayes of the man of sin The Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord in whose Light the Nations of them that are saved shall walk and great shall be the Peace and Assurance of his children in that day it shall be unto them a good day and a Joyful day a day of Feasting and Gladness of Heart a Good day and a Holy day a day of Praise and Thanksgiving wherein the wicked shall cease from Troubling and where the weary shall be at Rest there the Prisoners rest together and hear not the voyce of the oppressor Consider ye that are Commanding to abstain from Meats which God hath commanded to be eaten and commanding to Swear and Observes dayes which God hath forbiden saying Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work O will ye limit the Lords people that are in the Truth and such who stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free Will ye Judge them in Meats and condemn about Holy dayes of your own making as ye call them are ye wiser than God or must the Precepts of men be observed rather than the Commandements of God who saith by his Spirit that must not be limited All things are lawful to be eaten by them that know the Truth O what is your end that God must not be hearkened unto is not filthy luker your end that can for mony sell a Dispensation to do that which your Law condemneth as unlawful and what must the poor do that are sick and have scarce mony to buy meat much less to buy a licence to eat it let all these Laws be disanul'd and those Statutes that are contrary to the Statutes of God be established by you no longer upon any pretence whatsoever And for these things that are Righteous and Good and because we cannot break Christs Commands no other thing can be justly charged against us how are we drawn from our families Husbands from their Wices and Wives from their Children England never saw the like leaving them desolate without any helper in the earth as Sheep for the Slaughter so are we killed all the day long and counted as the off-Scowring of all things for Righteousness Sake because we follow him Who is the Lord our Righteousness obey his Righteous Commands rather than the Unrighteous Precepts and Commandements of men therefore are we Persecuted and Hated by them that know not our Innocency and judged not meet to live upon the earth And to hide themselves The Cry is as in all ages the Persecutors have done against the Lords People and Heritage They are Enemies to the King or no Friends to the present Government or else as the cry is now against the dispised Quakers Deceivers Deceivers such As destroy all good Laws and Government this was done in the green tree and this was done against the Apostles in Generations past and in this present age the cry is These are the false Christs and false Prophets that Christ said should come Mat. 24. v. 5 24. Now let all people consider the Scripture in the first Epistle of John chap. the 2. ver 18 19 26. chap. 4. ver 1 2 3 5. Read these Scriptures and you shall

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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