both of him that shall give out such a Commission and thee that shalt gain it of him that shall Execute it and of all that shall rejoyce at it and consent to it yea for all be they High be they Low be they Rich be they Poor be they Young be they Old be they Free be they Bound King or Subjects I say in the words and I hope in the Spirit of Truth with my Brother Stephen I shall Pray The Lord lay not this sin to their charge and in the words of him that was not ashamed to call his Congregation Heb. 2. 10. nor his Disciples Brethren Sisters and Mothers Mat. 12. 49 50. I say in his words I hope by the help of his Spirit I shall cry out and say Father forgive them they know not what they do Luke 23. 34. For this is a day in which we must expect nothing lesse but Mockings Iearings Scoffings and Deridings Buffettings Banishments and Imprisonments with Torturings and cruel Deaths for I perceive by the Hatred Malice and Malignity of the generality of the Sons and Daughters of Men that it must fare with us in our Crooked and Adulterous Generation as with the Flock of God gone before yea and with our Master himself who was said to have a Devil John 10. 20. And at length Away with him Crucifie him Crucifie him Mat. 27. 22. The Apostles Peter and Paul were both put to death in the last year of the Emperour Nero Paul was Beheaded and Peter was Crucified with his head downwards saith Eusebius Pamphilius in his third Book the first Chapter O Friends Consider what are your Fears what are your Doubts Did ye not run well in a Sun-shiny day who did binder you you lay all your Confidence in an Arm of Flesh and is it vanished with it Shall so many of us come out of Aegypt with Israel of old And shall our Carkastes fall thus as did theirs in the Way Shall but some few Calebs and Ioshuahs enter into Canaans Glory of the old Stock Numb 14. 22 23 24. What need we Fear are not all our Hairs numbred Can the Two Witnesses be Slain till the Forty and Two Moneths be expired and their Prophesies fulfilled Doth not the Nation ring of your Apostacy in this Cloudy Day Do not that People called Quakers upbraid us with your backslidings in one County and another a third and more O Friends It is the burthen of my Soul to hear such Actings as I hear and that my rejoycing towards you and on your behalfs in my Fannaticks Letter in page 5. c. is to so little purpose I well hoped it might have proved an Instrument in Gods Hand of much good unto you but I fear it was much slighted and undervalued because it dropped not from a tall Cedar but sprung up from so mean and low a shrub But to such Souls I must say in the Words of the Prophet Isa. 40. 28 c. Hast thou not known Hast thou not considered Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creatour of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary There is no searching of his Understanding He giveth power to the faint and to him that hath no might he encreaseth strength Even the Youths shall faint and the Young men shall utterly fail But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with Wings of Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint for of a Truth God is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth Him and worketh Righteousnesse is accepted of him Acts 10. 35. And now why should I much wonder to see such Apostatizing times when the Lord by his Servant telleth us That day shall not come except there come a falling away first at whose coming he himself putteth it to the Question Whether he shall find Faith on the Earth Luke 18. 8. And this is the use that through mercy I make of these times I see hereby my Saviour was a True Prophet And this is a Confirmation to me that I am in the Truth in which time I also see and feel such Halings before Magistrates to Prison in this time when Iniquity doth so much abound And Secondly This leads me out of my self to stand by the strength of Him that is Mighty by whose strength onely I have yet stood and still hope to stand It was by his strength that I lived and survived the dampnesse of the Dungeon void of Light or Air those ten Weeks together It was by his help that our Consciences were kept undefiled and by his help it was that way was made for us in the Hearts of the greatest of the Nation to Release us without Fees It is by the help of Iosephs God that was with him in the Prison Gen. 39. that it was so well with us as it was It was by the help of Daniels God that sent his Angel to shut the Mouths of the Lions that we were preserved from harm amongst a company of rude people Felons and others it was by the help of the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego that we came out of our Dungeon without harm And by the help of him that walked with them in the fiery Furnace it was that we were constantly refreshed comforted and supported it was by the help of him that turned again the Captivity of Iob that we were brought again from our Captivity it was by the help of him who inabled David to break through a Troop and to leap over a Wall that we are at present Escaped from the Guards of Souldiers that watched our Gates night and day it was by the help of him who sent his Angel to strike off Peters Chains and to open the Prison-doors that we were inlarged it was by help of him whose grace is sufficient for poor Souls that we were supported in our Spirits Yea it was by the good will of him that burned in the Bush that our Zeal for the Cause of Christ was and still is continued Oh then let me beg you in Gods Fear not to droop in this Cloudy day for there is no Crown but for the over-commer no Reaping but for him that doth not faint Oh then let the hands hanging down and the feeble knees be strengthened and held up and look up and lift your heads for your Redemption draweth nigh the day of Jesus is at hand the Kingdom of God is even at the door for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry and the Iust must live by Faith And now Rich. Brown I would have thee know that though I speak to my Brethren in this City Nation in some part of my Discourse yet it is not besides my business for thou well knowest that it is the nature of an Alarm so to do to Rouse Friends as well as Enemies I shall Appeal to thine own Practice
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
in the wetting if ye will neither endure the Fullers scouring nor the Refiners Purifying you cannot expect to offer a Pure Sacrifice in Righteousnesse Consider Friends that God is now provoking you to jealousie by a People which upon a Scripture account are not a People as he did Israel of old Rom. 11. 11. And will you be as stupid as they Have they not lain by you Have you not seen their Courage their Constancy and their Boldnesse both in their Sufferings and their Meetings And can you give out so easily Have we not a far better ground to Suffer then they Have we not Larger Promises than they For Eye hath not Seen Ear hath not Heard neither hath it ever entered into the Heart of Man to conceive what God hath laid up for them that Love Him Oh I beseech you Consider if such things be laid up for them that Love Him Let us examine our Wayes and see whether we have Loved Him his Laws his Statutes his Ordinances and his People as we ought to have done Have we had that Love to the Lord his People and the whole Creation as we ought to have had Hath the Conversion of Souls been esteemed in our Eyes Hath the Establishing and Confirming of Souls been delightful to us Have we laid forth our selves to make the Wayes of King Iesus Amiable Lovely and Desirable to all men Have we by our Constancy in our Assemblings together according to the Requirement of the Lord gone on with Christian Courage and Boldnesse not Fearing the Wrath of the King O Friends Consider whether the Love of King Iesus who laid down his Life for you that you might Live to Eternity or the Wrath of King Charles hath been most taking upon your Affections The Breach of whose Proclamation take it at the worst that can be imagined could but bring you to the Grave that cannot contain nor hold you long For the Sea shall give up the Dead that are in it And Death and Hell or the Grave shall Deliver up the Dead that are in them And all shall be judged every Man yea every Man according to his Works And at which time if our Wovks are not found Perfect before God the second Death must be our Portion Oh! That they were wise that they understood this that they would Consider their Latter End Deut. 32. 29. O Consider what your Actings have been may not the Lord Christ say to you as once he said to his Disciples Mat. 26. 40. What could you not watch with me one hour What could ye not hold it out with the Foot men how think ye you will be able to run with the Horse men And may not I say to you in the words of our Apostle Gal. 5. 7 8. You did Run well who did hinder you that ye should not obey the Truth This perswasion cometh not of him that called you who said Mat. 5. 34. Swear not at all Oh Consider Friends the saying of our Apostle in vers 9. How that a little Leaven Leaveneth the whole Lump How many eyes are and have been upon you and such as you are that do thus undervalue the words of your Master King Iesus What can be expected from poor Souls such as are but Tender Lambs of Iesus O I beseech you have a care for you that have known much from you God will require the more O then have a Care and Consider that so ye may give up your Account with Ioy and not with Trembling Oh that they were wise but to set Eternity before their eyes that so they might please God not at all fearing the faces of Men. Yet herein I would not be mistaken yea I say again I would not herein be mistaken for I do not in the least perswade to Rebellion against King Charles to Gratifie King Iesus for that is not agreeable to his Law But I would have them in obeying King Iesus to obey King Charles and in obeying King Charles to obey King Iesus As thus I would have them obey King Iesus in all his Laws Statutes Ordinances and Appointments not Fearing King Charles nor his Proclamations And yet I would have them according to the Requirement of that Servant of King Iesus Rom. 13. 7. To Render to King Charles Custom Tribute Fear and Honour I would have them Obey King Iesus and to be so careful to avoid Forswearing as not to Swear for that Yesterday and this to Day and the other to Morrow for to Day and against to Morrow as it is at this day with Thousands But I would have them so to avoid the danger of Forswearing in every Case as that I would have them in no Case to Swear at all according to Mat. 5. 34. Iams 5. 12. The which in my Fannaticks Testimony against Swearing is cleared And yet I would have them according to the Requirement of King Iesus to be as faithfull in their Yeas and Nays to King Charles yea and Faithfuller too than those his Subjects that Ram Dam Rend Tear Swear and Forswear I would also have them so fear King Iesus as that I would not have them fear King Charles for Rulers are not set up for a Terrour to good Works but to the Evil Rom. 13. 3. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the Power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same for he is a Minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is Evil be afraid for he beareth not the Sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon them that do Evil Rom. 13. 3 4. But here me-thinks I hear multitudes will be ready to object and say If King Charles was set up for this end and had the Sword of Iustice for this Cause put into his hands why is it as it is with us at this day Why are we in several Goales and Dungeons in most Counties in England when we are found no evil Doers when they have nothing against us in any thing save in the matters of our God who saith by his Son Swear not at all Nay why are and have been several Imprisoned that have sworn And why have some Persons been forced to pay Fees as Traytors though they have Sworn before they were put into Prison and not taken from Meetings neither but from their own habitations if the Magistrate as the Scripture saith be set up to be a praise to them that do well why were we thus rudely Hurryed Why cryes out several in Newgate are we thus cruelly Imprisoned by Richard Brown and kept in without Tryal Why were we cry out some thirty of them committed to Newgate the 10th Day of Abib Exod. 13. 4. or the first Month from our peaceable Meeting out of Beech-Lane by the City Marshal and the rude Rabble and saw not the face if a Magistrate till the Eighteenth day after that we were carryed before him the tenderest of whose Mercies are meer Cruelty
for thou hast an Alarm from one of the Sons of Zion that telleth thee thy Condition is sad and that he is such an one unto thee as once the Lord Christ was to the Woman at the Well of Samaria Iohn 4. 17 29. that he is down-right with thee and telleth thee in plainness of speech what thou hast done and what is thy danger and what thy acts of violence will bring thee to And when Conscience is throughly awaked ask it seriously and desire it to satisfie thee plainly whether it doth judge that thou thy self couldest be willing to be served as thou hast served many a poor man yea many a miserable poor man that thou hast cast into Prison And were thy Children tender and young as possible some of theirs are at thy poor empty and naked house crying out for bread and thou kept in Prison not in a capacity to gain thine own nor theirs even to the wounding of thy Soul and to the great burthen of thy Spirit Ask thy Conscience also whether it ought not to make scruple of an Oath especially in Swearing for and against and whether thou couldest be willing to be forced to Swear one day for this thing and another day against that same thing Ask it also whether it could be willing to be forced to go to such a Worship as is meerly Formal Carnal and in a great measure Papal when it is really convinced of the contrary and whether it could be willing to be forced to maintain an Antichristian Ministery in opposition to the true Ministers of Jesus I say again O Richard Brown if thou art not willing to act as a Christian upon a Scripture account then rouse up and awaken thy Conscience and act but like a meer Heathen and confident I am thou wilt find more comfort in it in the conclusion than thou wilt in thy present actings by many degrees For now thou art Persecuting the People of God not knowing in what Relation they stand to the great God and his Son Jesus Christ for as the whole bulk of mankind was in a lost condition and as our first Parents sold us all by reason of their first transgression so God found a way out of his meer Love to buy us again to himself for so saith our Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God both in your bodies and in your spirits which are Gods And 1 Cor. 7. 23. Ye are bought with a price be not the servants of men And he that bought us saith by his Son Mat. 5. 34. Swear not at all and yet thou dost imprison men and women because they will not serve men in Swearing for them and when they would have them Secondly We cost God dear even his own Son Tit. 2. 14. yea the precious blood of that Son For so saith the Text 1 Pet. 1. 18. For ye are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious Blood of the Son of God as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot Yea by the Blood of him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own Blood Rev. 1. 5. and Rev. 5. 9. and Heb. 9. 12 13 26. And so First We are his Portion for the Lords People are his Portion Deut. 32. 9. Zech. 2. 12. And now Richard Brown consider what thou art doing thou art squandring away the Lords Portion thou wert better by many degrees be doing something else for the very hairs of their heads are all numbred Matt. 10. 30. and he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of Gods eye Zech. 2. 8. Yea so saith the Prophet Moses Deut. 32. 10. speaking of Gods People he found them in a Desart Land in a waste howling Wilderness he led them about and instructed them he kept them as the apple of his eye And this was the Prayer of David when he was in distress Psal. 17. 8. Keep me O Lord as the apple of thine eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings Mens Portions we know are to be employed for the benefit of the Owners and the People and Portion that cost God so dear should be improved for God by setting forth his glory in their several and respective Meetings and increasing their number But thou hast shut up their Meetings and shut them up into Prison-holes and Dungeons O Richard Brown how wilt thou answer the Lord Iehovah for these thy cruel dealings O in the fear of the Lord consider thy ways and the Lords Patience yet towards thee should the Lord be but as cruel to thee as thou art to his Portion his poor peaceable innocent harmless People What dost thou think would become of thee to Eternity Turn back again to the Law-case in Page 32. and read thy doom what it will be except thou agree with him whom thou hast thus made thine Adversary even quickly whilst thou art in the way Secondly As they are his dear Portion by Purchase so they are his Heritage Ioel 2. 17. and God by his Spirit in his servant 1 Pet. 5. 3. requires those that are the Elders over his People that they Lord it not overGods Heritage as the Parish-Priests use to Lord it over their Flocks and the Bishops were wont to Lord it in their Dioces But consider O R. Brown since thou wert L. Mayor how thou hast lorded nay tyrannized over Gods Heritage whom thou by the Lord never hadst an appointment to overlook nor watch over therefore see the danger thou art in for thy so doing as well as others in all other Heathenish Nations for saith the Lord Ioel 2. 2. I will gather all nations and bring them down into the Valley of Iehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my People and for mine Heritage whom they have scattered among the Nations Yea I say O Richard Brown that God will reckon with thee for those that thou hast Imprisoned by which meanes thou hast scattered the Flock and dispersed derided and despised Gods Heritage For thus saith the Lord Vers. 11. Come ye Heathen and I say O Lord Major of London that hast not acted so well as most of the Heathens unless thou Repent thou also shalt there be Reckoned withall and that Reckoning will be terrible for Vers. 16. The Lord shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Ierusalem and the heavens and the earth shall be shaken And Vers. 19. Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness for their Uiolence against the Children of Iudah because they have shed innocent blood in their land then beware O BLOODY MAIOR Thirdly And as Gods People are the Portion and Heritage of God so they are the Vinyard of God for so saith that Kingly Prophet Ps. 80. 15. They are Gods Vine the Vinyard which his own right hand hath planted Yea so also as saith that Evangelical Prophet
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