tender love unto all your souls Oh! turn in turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you which light gives life unto the soul for he that hath the Son hath life but he that hath not the Son not life And so I have in plainnesse and according to truth and not contrary but according also unto the Scriptures of truth which are as a cloud of witnesses for me and for the truth which I have written declared the way how fallen men and women may be restored into that pure innocent state and being which Adam was in before the fall and the cause of his fall was through disobedience unto the Lord God So the God of Heaven raise up his own witnesse in you and open your understandings open that Eie in you which the God of this World hath blinded that so you may see the things which belongs unto your souls peace which is the desire of my soul the Lord God knoweth my heart and that you may partake of that living vertue which nourisheth our souls and to have fellowship with us for truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus the light who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith and he is the Anchor and Bishop of our souls who is God blessed for evermore Amen A Warning from the Lord God of life and power in bowels of dear and tender love unto all the Rulers Priests and People that they hasten to Repentance who are spending their time without the fear of the Lord and nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter REpent repent repent and return unto the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whose voice is terrible unto the Nations and all Nations are in his sight but as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the Earth Oh dread and fear ye the living God who rules in the Kingdomes of men who hath the hearts of all men in his hand and he can turn them whensoever he pleaseth Oh all ye tall Cedars and stout Oakes thus saith the Lord God that except ye speedily repent and return unto the Lord the Lord God will top you and he will lay you low and the Lord God will make you bend and bow before him and he will stain the pride and the glory of all flesh and will make all to know that all flesh is as grasse and the glory of man as the flower of the field for the grasse withereth and the flower fadeth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever By which word except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord the Lord God will cut you off and then woe and misery will be your portion for ever Therefore I say unto you all who am a lover of all Souls as you tender the good wel-fare and happinesse of your immortal souls Return return unto the Lord and unto his light in your consciences which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings unto you when there is no outward eye sees you or can accuse you of them yet the al-seeing eye of the Lord God sees you and beholds you and he is present with his light which is his true and faithfull witnesse in you to condemn you for the evil of your doings which light in you never consented to sin or evil but stands a witnesse for God in you against sin and evill Therefore I say unto the light of Christ take heed as you prize the good of your own souls and put not the day of the Lord afar off any longer for to day saith the Lord if you will hear my voyce harden not your hearts Oh ye Stif-necked and Rebellious and Uncircumcised in hearts and ears ye do alwayes resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye Oh prize the light prize the day of the Lords Visitation of you for now he is visiting of you with his pure everlasting love and he waits to be gracious unto you and for your return Oh return return ye unto the Lord God and hearken to his reproof and go on no longer in rebellion nor stif-neckednesse against the Lord for if you do you will provoke the Lord against you to destroy you which is not the desire of the Lord if you will return unto him for saith the Lord I desire not the death of one sinner but rather that all should turn and live for saith he Oh house of Israel why wilt thou dye why wilt thou dye turn unto me and thy Soul shall live Oh people why will ye dye why will ye dye Oh return return unto the Lord and your souls shall live for he hath long waited and is yet waiting for your return for said the Lord Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickings under her wings but ye would not And all the day long saith the Lord have I stretched out mine hand unto a disobedient and a gain-saying people who would have none of my Councel neither regarded they my reproof but choose the things wherein I delighted not Therefore people as you tender the good of your own Souls return unto the Lord God while he waits for your return and while his hand is stretcht forth unto you For this I testifie unto you from the Lord God that the day of your visitation is near passed over your heads and the time is very near approaching that the spirit of the Lord God will leave striving with you for my spirit saith the Lord shall not alwaies strive with man Then woe and misery will be your portion for ever and a day of blackness a day of darknesse and a day of gloominesse you shall assuredly come to witnesse where you shall weep and howl for sorrow and vexation of spirit and then there shall be none to pitty you and this shall assuredly come upon you except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord for what I speak I speak infallibly and it shall stand for ever Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and people I warn you from the Lord God of life and power that you hasten to repentance and amendment of life knowing assuredly from the Lord that there is a woeful day approaching and is near at hand upon all the heads of the wicked and the ungodly and the Lord will make many open examples unto others except they speedily repent and return unto him for the month of the Lord hath spoken it Therefore I say as you price the good of your own souls provoke the Lord no longer against you but while ye have time prize it for the time present is all peoples time to make their peace with the Lord for the time past cannot be recalled again and the time to come is in the hands of the Lord and he can stop the breath in your nostrils and take it out of your bodies and then time
THE Fall of Man DECLARED AND The way declared in plainnesse and according unto Truth how faln Man and Woman may be restored into that pure innocent state and being that Adam was in before the fall AND A Warning from the Lord God of life and power in bowels of dear and tender love unto all the Rulers Priests and People that they hasten to Repentance who are spending their time without the fear of the Lord and nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter For the triumphing of the wicked is but short and the hope of the hypocrite but for a moment and though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach the clouds yet shall he perish like his own dung and he shall vanish away like a night vision and they which saw him shall see him no more LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1661. The Fall of Man Declared GOD who made the World and all things therein who formed the mountains and created the Winds who is a God at hand and not a God afar off who is near unto all that call upon him in Truth and Righteousnesse Oh all people Seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you he created Male and Female after his own Image and to do his will and to delight alone in him and to worship serve and obey him who gave man whom he created after his own image power and authority and set him over and above all the creatures which he by the word of his power created for the use and service of man I say the Lord God gave man so long as man continued in obedience unto him power and authority over all the fowls of the ayr and the fishes of the sea and the beasts of the field And the Lord God he planted a garden in Eden and he took man whom he had formed and put him into the Garden to dresse it and to keep it and commanded him saying Of every tree in the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And the Lord God he said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a meet help for him and the Lord God made of the rib which he took from man a woman and brought her unto man and said Adam this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man Now the Serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field which God had made saith he Yea hath God said of every tree in the Garden you may not eat of The Woman said unto the serpent We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the Garden but of the tree that is in the midst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it least ye die Now the serpent being more subtile then any beast of the field although God had said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die said the serpent unto the woman Ye shal not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that it was good for food and pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave unto her husband with her and he did eat and immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they gathered fig-leaves and sewed them together to make themselves aprons for to make a covering to hide them from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye people who are yet in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the earth that when man woman had disobeyed transgressed the command of the Lord God in eating of the the forbidden fruit that was of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God commanded man whom he had created after his own image saying Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou mayest not eat for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die I say that when man and woman had disobeyed the Command of the Lord in eating of the forbidden fruit immediately their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked and they sewed figg-leaves together for to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord And they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the coole of the day they seeing their nakedness they hid themselves amongst the trees of the Garden from the presence of the Lord mark that all ye who are in the fall in the transgression and spending your dayes without the fear of the Lord and your precious time which the Lord God spares you for to see if you will return unto him in sports pleasures rioting and wickednesse turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God with which you are enlightned which checks and reproves you for sin and evil and makes manifest the evil of your doings and the thoughts and intents of your hearts unto you when there is no man present with you or can accuse of them yet is the Lord God present with you by his light which is his true and faithful witnesse which he hath placed in you which never consented unto sin and evil but is a witnesse for God against sin and evil I say then is the Lord present to reprove you and to condemn you for the evil of your doings I say turn in your minds into the Light of the Son of God with which you are inlightned and come and let us reason together a little Is there not in you after the height of your wickednesse is over and you come into a little calmnesse in the cool of the day a still low voice following of you and crying in you man or Woman Where art thou what is this which thou hast done Then by the light of Christ in thee with which thou art enlightned comes to see thou hast disobeyed the Command of the Lord God And that thou hast acted contrary unto his pure mind and will and unto his true and faithful witnesse in thee which is the light of the Son of God with which thou art enlightned So I say by that thou comes to see that thou art naked and then terrour and fear takes hold upon thee and then thou strives to get a covering to hide thy self from the presence of the Lord then in that state and condition as thou art striving to get some Fig-leaved Garment or some words as the enemy of thy souls peace that old serpent who was a lyar from the
beginning shall put into thee or raise up in thee to speak but this I tell ye all from the Lord God who are yet in the fall and in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord and without God in the World that all the coverings that you have made or ever shall make are too narrow and they cannot hide you neither can you be hid under them from the presence of the Lord God for from the Lord God you cannot hide nor from him you cannot flie but unto him you must give an account for the deeds and works done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil And the woe of the Lord is unto all ye who are making false fained coverings to hide you from the Lord and from the eyes of men for woe saith the Lord unto the rebellious Children who take counsell and not of me and that cover with a covering but not with my Spirit And woe unto them that hide their sins for they shall not prosper And this I tell you again from the Lord that your coverings are too narrow and they cannot hide you neither are you hid under them from the Lord nor from the pure single Eie which the Lord God hath opened in hundreds of his dear Babes and Lambs who are counted by you the off-scouring of all things and people not fit to live upon the Earth and as sheep for the slaughter and are reproachfully and scornfully by you called Quakers So now all people as you tender the good of your own souls and have any desire to know the Lord God who created ye this is the counsel of the Lord God unto ye Oh! Turn in turn in your minds into the Light of the Son of God with which you are enlightned and waite ye in patience in it and hearken diligently unto the Voice of the Lord unto the Voice of the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Son of God the light of the World Who is the light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who must be heard in all things For said the servant of the Lord A Prophet will the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you And it shall come to passe that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the People So all people who are yet in the fall in the transgression driven out from the presence of the Lord into the Earth and without God in the World I say as you tender the good and welfare and happinesse of your immortal souls cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils who keeps you ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth and give not way unto that spirit which hath led and acted you into sin and into transgression into lightnesse and ayrinesse but turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God and keep in your minds and wait ye in patience in it and hearken ye diligently unto the voice the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Light of the World who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World I say hearken ye diligently unto the voice of the true Prophet which is a still low voice which follows the Creature and when the Creature turns either unto the right hand or unto the left it saith this is the way walk in it Mark that all ye who are yet in the fall and in the transgression that is the voice of the true Prophet which cries in you for purity and holinesse and after the heighth of your wickednesse is over and you come into a little calmnesse then in the cool of the day it cries in you Man or Woman where art thou what is this that thou hast acted and done then you with the Light of the Son of God comes to see your nakednesse and then you strive to make coverings to hide your selves from the presence of the Lord and in this state and condition as I said before the wo of the Lord is unto you For wo saith the Lord unto the rebellious Children who take counsel and not of me and that cover with a covering but not with my Spirit And the Lord God called unto Adam and said where art thou sayes Adam unto God again I heard thy voice and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid my self so when Man whom God created after his own Image had disobeyed the command of the Lord who created him in eating of the forbidden fruit that is of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye and immediately after Adam and Eve his wife had eaten of the forbidden fruit the Lord he opened their eyes and then they saw their nakednesse and they gathered fig-leaves and sewed them together to make them coverings and they strove to hide themselves amongst the trees of the garden from the presence of the Lord and said the Lord unto Adam who shewed thee thy nakednesse Hast thou eaten of the forbidden fruit which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat of Then answered Adam unto the Lord the woman that thou gavest to be with me did give unto me and I did eat Then said the Lord unto the Woman What is this that thou hast done Then answered the Woman and said The Serpent did beguile me and I did eat Then said the Lord God unto the Serpent for this that thou hast done thou art cursed above all Cattle and above every Beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shall be thy meat all the dayes of thy life And said the Lord God I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed and it shall bruise thy head that is the seed of the woman and thou shalt bruise her heel And so now all people who are yet in the fall and in the transgression in the earth driven out from the presence of the Lord unredeemed and without God in the world This I write unto you all in dear love and in bowels of tender love and as you prize the good of your own souls consider and lay it to heart how you have spent your time without the fear of the Lord God who created you to do his will and to serve and obey him so now I say unto you all come to a true and a serious consideration for what end and purpose God created you whether to do his will and to serve and obey him or to do your own wicked corrupt wills and to serve and obey your own hearts lusts unto the witnesse of God in all your Consciences do I speak which I know from the Lord God will answer and confesse that God created you to do his will and to serve and obey him Then this is the counsel of
will be no more to you Oh! prize the light prize the day of the Lords visitation of you for as I said before so I say again from the Lord that the day of your visitation is near passed over your heads and when it is passed over your heads then you may seek the Lord and shall not find him and call upon him and he will not hear you Why because saith the Lord when I called ye would not answer and when I spoke ye would not hear then will the Lord mock at your calamity and laugh when your fear cometh Therefore I say seek ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near you for he is a God athand and not a God a far off and he is near unto all that call upon him in truth and in righteousnesse Oh! Earth Earth Earth Oh! People People People dread and fear the living God and tremble and bow before him whose day is at hand that will burn as an Oven Yea and all the proud and all that do wickednesse shall be as stubble and except you speedily repent and return unto him he will burn you up and he will leave you neither root nor branch and then the Rocks and the Mountains nor all your outward strength shall not be able to save you from the wrath of the Lamb nor from the indignation of the Just One who is risen and arising as a Mighty man of War to take the Kingdom and the greatnesse of the Kingdoms Yea he is risen and arising to plead with all flesh by Fire and by Sword and the slain of the Lord shall be many for the Sword of the Lord is drawn and furbished and he is preparing of it for the slaughter and except you speedily return unto the Lord he will kindle a fire in your bowels which shall never be quenched until it hath consumed you Therefore all ye tall Cedars Sturdy and stout ones if you go on in rebellion and stif-neckednesse against the Lord and continue your persecuting and imprisoning of the servants of the most high God which are by you reproachfully called Quakers thus saith the Lord God I will dash you to pieces as a potters Vessel and will make you bend and bow before me saith the Lord and will exalt the horn of mine Anointed Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People whose trust is in the Arm of flesh and whose strength consisteth in the Host of men and in Horses and Chariots and in Tumults Noises and Voices and although you have made a Covenant with Death and an agreement with Hell yet your Covenant with Death and agreement with Hell shall be broken by the Power of the Lord God and although at the present you have power to cast the servants of the most High God some into one Prison and some into another and some into Dungeons and Holes and under many locks and boults and make havock and spoil of their goods yet thus saith the Lord God that he will not leave us nor forsake us for our enemies to destroy us but he will with his own out-stretched Arm bring deliverance for us as we wait in patience on him which deliverance shall be beyond the expectation of man whose breath is in his Nostrils And it shall be an astonishment unto all the Heathen round about and the Lord God will give us the necks of our Enemies to tread upon and they shall be as ashes under the soles of our feet And this I can truly and boldly say through the love of God towards me whose love I hope will never be forgotten by me although at the present I am in outward bonds yet neverthelesse in the pure Eternal truth of God I do reign and triump and do Trample upon all the heads and necks of the wicked and this I do declare in boldnesse from the Lord God who hath said and doth still say unto me fear not what man can do unto thee for I will never leave thee nor forsake thee That the Lord God will make you all bend and bow unto his pure everlasting truth which he hath by his own power gathered us into who are scornfully and reproachfully by you called Quakers Mark I do not say that you shall bend and bow unto us as Creatures but unto his pure everlasting Truth and unto his pure Divine power by which we are upheld and by which we reign over all the heads of the wicked Yea verily the Lord God will make you bow unto his Son Christ Jesus the light of the World who is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World who is the Way the Truth and the Life who is risen to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and he will make all bend and bow before him for there is no other Name by-which any man can be saved but by the Name of Jesus at which every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confesse unto him and although Gog and Magog Beast and false Prophet and all the powers of darknesse joyn hand in hand and gather to gather and make a head against the Lamb and his Followers yet the Lamb shall gain the Victory For there is no Weapon formed against you shall prosper saith the Lord. And know this assuredly that the work which the Lord God hath begun in the Earth he will accomplish it and you can no more stop or hinder the work of the Lord which he hath begun then you can stop or hinder the Sun from rising or the Wind from blowing or the Rain from descending no more can you stop or hinder the Work of the Lord Therefore in vain do you strive against the Lord and his Anointed for if I do work saith the Lord who can hinder Therefore all ye fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the ground ye are good for nought but for the fire who have long made a profession of a God and a Christ in words but in life and in power you do deny him For now is the Lord come to seek for Fruit and behold what is to be found amongst you but corruption and wickednesse for the best of you is as a Bryar and the uprightest of you sharper then a Thorn hedge so you are found to be fruitlesse Trees which cumbers the Ground ye are good for nothing but for the fire and now is the Ax laid to the Root of the Tree and every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the fire Therefore cease professing of a God and a Christ in words and make no more profession of a God and a Christ in words then you can witnesse of them in life and in power for profession without possession is no more before the Lord then the Chaffe is before the Wind neither is it any more in the fight of the Lord then the cutting off a Dogsneck or offering Swines blood Therefore all ye Rulers Priests and People who professe and
call your selves Christians truly it would rejoyce my soul if I could see the fruits of Christianity brought forth by you Now consider and lay it to heart and let the witness of God in you all answer unto which I speak and unto which I am commended and unto which I do appeal is not Swearing Drunkenness Lying Covetousness Cozening and Cheating Defrauding and double-dealing alive and remaining in you and is not Malice Strife Wrath Envy Hatred and Persecution alive and remaining in you unto the Witness of God in all your Consciences do I speak which I know from the Lord God will answer for me and against your selves and that you are guilty of these evils which are here mentioned then say I that the old man with his deeds is yet alive in you un-put off that is the old degenerated nature and so you do make your selves manifest to be of them which say they are Jewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Sathan for he that is in Christ is a new Creature Mark that I say he that is in Christ is a new Creature old things are done away and all things become new so the old man with his deeds being yet alive in you you have got the name Christian but not the nature so as the Body without the Spirit is dead so the Name without the Nature is dead also for to say Christians is as much as to say Christ-like but you are seen in the Eternal light of God not to bear his Image but the Image of another the Image of the Earthly the Image of Antichrist that is the man of sin and his works you do and his Servants you are and his Kingdom you strive to uphold So now there hath been for many years a great talk of Reformation the Nation of England to be a Reformed Nation and the People of England to be a Reformed People Why now consider and turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God which is made manifest in you and commune with your own hearts and be still and enter into your Closets and let the door be shut enter into your own hearts and take heed unto the light of the Son of God in you and come and let us reason together a little there what is that you are reformed from or what is that you are reformed unto doth not sin and iniquity run down as a flood in Englands streets and ungodlinesse as a stream and peoples mouths filled with bitterness and cursing and are not they that depart iniquity made a prey to those who live in iniquity and they whom the Lord God hath redeemed out of the World and stand in his dread and fear they are the Song of the Drunkard and a by-word unto a wicked and perverse generation of scorners who say who is the Lord that we should fear him and to the Almighty depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy waies and say you we will not have this man to reign over us that is you will not have Christ Jesus the light to rule over you you will not have the light of Christ in you to reign for say you if we should own the light of Christ in us and that to rule in us then we must lay down our Crowns saies you tall Cedars and great Ones of the Earth and our Honour and Glory we must loose and saies all you Priests and People if we should receive the light and that rule in us then we must deny all our gain of ungodliness and all our Pleasures Sports and Pastimes we must deny But thus saith the Lord that except you speedily repent and return unto me saith the Lord I will arise and wound the hairy scalp of the wicked and your eares shall tingle and fear and terrour shall take hold and surprize the Hypocrite and your hearts shall wax faint and your strength shall be taken away and ye shall have your portion in the lake which burns for ever and there ye shall be tormented from the presence of the Lord. Oh poor hearts my soul pities you the Lord God knoweth my heart and oft times is my heart taken up with a great lamentation and a great pity runs forth from me towards you when I consider what a sad state and condition you are in as to your Eternal being and also what a sad and a woful day is coming upon you for many of you shall be made open examples unto others except you speedily repent and return unto the Lord Therefore as you tender the good of your own souls turn at the reproof of the Lord and cease from your outward Teachers who keeps you ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth who speaks a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord for they run and I never sent them therefore they shall not profit the people at all saith the Lord but if they had stood in my counsel then they should have turned people from the evil of their waies therefore I say turn in your minds into the light of the Son of God and hearken diligently unto the voice of the true Prophet Christ Jesus the Light of the World who is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World and he that will not hear this Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people Therefore I say as you tender the good of your own souls cease from your outward Teachers from your greedy hirelings from your deceitful Merchants who steal the true Prophets words Christs words and the Apostles words and makes a Trade of them and sells them to poor ignorant people for money Oh People uphold their gain of Unrighteousnesse no longer for you have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money for they make Merchandize of souls for dishonest gain who are in the way of Cain and run greedily after the errour of Balaam who loved the wages of Unrighteousnesse and they stand in the gain-saying of Corah and receive the wages of Unrighteousnesse who teach the things they ought not for filthy lucres sake whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame whose end is destruction who mind earthly things but such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies their throat is an open Sepulchre and with their Tongues they utter deceit the poyson of Asps is under their lips and their feet are swift to shed bloud and they run on in their own way but the way of peace they know not Therefore all People consider and lay to heart what they have profited you and let the witnesse of God in you all answer and spend your money no longer for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not Now this is the call of the Lord God unto you all come forth from amongst them and touch not
the unclean and I will receive you saith the Lord Therefore I say come forth of Babylon and be not partakers with her in her sins least ye also partake with her in her Plagues And this is also the call of the Lord unto you all Ho every one that thirsteth come buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk freely without money and without price come to the water of life freely for there is a Fountain set open for Judah and for Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse Therefore I say People spend your money no longer for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not for you have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be Redeemed without Money Therefore all People as you tender the good of your own soules drink of the Whores Cup no longer which Babylons Merchants holds forth unto you as a golden Cup but within is full of deadly poyson but turn in your minds into the light of Christ in your own consciences and this I testifie unto you from the Lord as you yield obedience to be led and Guided by it it will lead you out of sin and out of evil and out of all false waies Worships Customs and Traditions that are in the World and out of the false Church that is in the World into the true Church that is in God which is built up of Living Pure Pretious Elect stones of which Church Christ is the Head and it will lead you unto the Father from whence it came there to worship the Father in spirit and in truth for such the Father seeks to worship him and the time is already come that the true Worshippers do worship the Father in spirit and in truth But the Beast and false Prophet shall be taken alive and cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone which burns for ever where they shall be tormented in flames from the presence of the Lord God who will reward every one according unto their deeds and works done in the Body whether they be good or whether they be evil Of the Lord God of life and power was I moved to write unto you and it is in Bowels of dear and tender love unto all your soules and whether you will hear or forbear I shall be clear of your bloods and shall be a good savour unto them that are saved and unto them that perish I remain a lover of your immortal soules but as the Lord requireth of me in obedience unto him I must hear my Testimony against all sin and wickednesse in whomsoever I see it whether in Rulers Priests or People As I was waiting on the Lord and my mind being exercised in the light of the Son of God in the Dungeon at Warwick on the 9th and 10th Day of the Month called May 1661. Most of this that is herein written did the Lord God put it fresh into my heart and it did remain in me till the 20th day of the same Month and then the Lord added more unto it and in obedience unto him I gave it forth From a Prisoner and a Servant of the Lord and a lover of all souls who suffered 16. weekes in outward Bonds in the Dungeon at Warwick which is 20. Staires down because in obedience unto the Lord and unto his Law which he hath written in my heart I could not promise to forsake the assembling of my self with Gods chosen and elect ones called Quakers who is reproachfully and scornfully called Quaker but am known to the World by name Tho. Kent THE END