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A premonition to the bishops and priests of England &c. with twenty reasons why the people of God in scorn called Quakers do refuse to hear them.
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Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.
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1676
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Wing R1488; ESTC R17045
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A PREMONITION TO THE Bishops and Priests OF ENGLAND c. With Twenty Reasons why the People of God in Scorn called Quakers do Refuse to hear them GOD Almighty at sundry times and in divers manners hath appeared to warn you of his Wrath and sore displeasure which hath several Years hung over your heads even ready to be revealed from Heaven upon you for your manifold abominations and Oppressions the Cry of which hath reached to Heaven and therefore hath the God of mercy who delighteth not in the destruction of the wicked put his word in the Mouthes of his Servants and Messengers who early and late in word and writing Year after Year and Time after Time have exhorted you to cease to do Evil and learn to do Well and to break off your abominable Wickednesses and cruel Oppressions under which the Land mournes by speedy and unfeigned Repentance but you have hitherto dispised evil-intreated and Persecuted his Messengers and rejected his Word till even now the wrath of the Lamb is kindled against you from which none can deliver you for you have provoked him who delighteth in mercy to wrath and jealousie dayes without number your Pride Covetousness Drunkenness Whoredoms among you Lying Swearing Oppression and lording it over God's Heritage and forcing Thousands to walk in the broad way to destruction with your selves whom you can prevail withal is Recorded as with a Pen of Iron and point of a Diamond Oh! my Heart is Rent because of the misery and sore destruction which God will bring upon you your Posterity if you and they still harden your Hearts against him and my wrestlings are often with the Lord not to pour forth the vials of his wrath upon your Head but rather give you penitent Hearts if you have not sinned out your Day Oh! that there were such an heart in you as would strip you out of your Pharisaical long Robes and cloath you with Sackcloth and Ashes upon your Heads and cry mightily unto God as the Men of Nineveh did that God may turn from you his fiery Indignation and sore displeasure that is ready to flame in fury against you for your Repentance and not your Destruction is the earnest desire of my Soul Oh! that you knew in this your day the things that belong to your Peace with God but the Day is very near wherein they will be hid from your Eyes for God's Spirit will not alwayes strive with you as it hath hither to done neither will the place of Repentance be always in your sight which when hid you shall seek Death and shall not find it and shall say in the Morning would God it were Evening and in the Evening would God it were Morning for the dread and horror that shall compass you on every side then shall he that sits in Heaven laugh at your Calmity and stand far off from you when your fear cometh even as pain upon a Woman that travaileth for you have over-passed the deeds of the wicked the Land even stinks through your abominations you have long fed your selves with the Fat of this Land and cloathed your selves with the Wool that you are more like Sodomites then Christians but you have killed and cruelly Persecuted those that God hath fed with Bread from Heaven like the false Shepherds of Israel whom God by the Mouth of Ezekiel cryed wo against Ezek 34.2 3 4. Oh! what will you do in the end of these things when the God of Righteousness shall require his Flock at your Hands What hath People profitted under you this many Years Do not both them and yourselves grow worse and worse you deceiving and they deceived but if you had stood in the Counsel of God had been Authoriz'd by him had caused People to hear his word of Faith in their Hearts then had you been as so many lustrous Stars in the Firmament of his power forever but now you are left as Wells without Water Clouds carryed about with a Tempest for a little Storm will drive you East or West North or South yea wandring Stars to whom unless you speedily Repent is reserved the blackness of utter Darkness forever For the Light of the glorious day of God's power you have wofully hated and have loved Darkness rather by reason of your Evil deeds and you have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against many yea even all whom you can prevail withall by hateing slighting and setting at nought the Key of David which should open the Door of entrance unto it and yet would take it by the force and strength of your earthly Wisdoms and brain Knowledge but this know that neither Fornicator nor Adolterer nor Idolator nor the unclean hath any part or portion in it 1 Cor 6.9 10. Ephes 5.3 5. but the Darkness which they have loved in their life-times shall be their lot and portion forever with the word UTTER annext to it unless they Repent and turn unto the Light with which Christ Jesus hath enlightned them and love it and walk in it in your life-times which hitherto many of you Priests have most wretchedly despised and blasphemed against Therefore oh ye Bishops and Priests and all your Judges and Officers whose proceedings are corrupted who have taken the sheaf from the hungry and have not bound up the broken hearted nor relieved the OpPressed if ye will not hear nor lay these things to Heart the Lord will spread Dung upon your Faces and will make you a Hissing and a By-word of of Reproach to Generations to come for your Iniquities are almost full and you are daily heaping up Wrath against the Day of wrath they who work Wickedness are set up and Countenanced among you and they that tempt God every day are even delivered and counted your great Church-Members and Communicants but they who reprove Iniquity in the Gate are grievously drawn before your Judgment Seats and made a Prey upon both in their Persons and properties which was never Christ's but Antichrist's way of Convincing gain sayers And how do you lead many blind to Destruction by forcing them under the penalty of Excommunication to eat and drink their own damnation if it be matter of Damnation to eat at your table without Faith in it how many have you drawn before your Judgment Seats because they come not to your Sacrament are you certain they have examin'd themselves according to the Apostle's command 1 Cor. 11.28 or do you know them to be worthy or discern the Lord's Body or do you discern it your selves without which whosoever eateth or drinketh doth it unworthily to his own damnation vers 29. And how can you ever stand clear before the Seat of divine Justice who force men under severe Penalties contrary to the perswasion of their own Hearts after Examination by which many have found their unworthiness to eat and drink their own Damnation or else they must be cursed out of your worshipping Houses and cast out of the Society and company