Magitians Wisemen c. to come unto you commanding them to tell you the meaning of those strange and wonderfull Appearances and Apparitions that have been seen by many upon the Earth and in the Ayre in England and Wiles and Else-where But when the Magitians Southsayers Socerers and Astrologers Wisemen so called could not tell these Kings the meaning of those wonderfull things that had then appeared though they were sent for on purpose to tell them the meaning and interpretation of their Visions and Dreames also to read and interpret the strange vvritting that had appeared and to tell them the meaning thereof But when those Wise-men that the King sent for could not Read the writting nor tell King Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of his Visions and Dreams Then was the Prophet Daniel spoken of after which the King commanded the Captain to fetch Daniel unto him and when Daniel came before the King Nebuchadnezzar then said the King thou art greatly beloved of God tell me therefore if thou canst the meaning and interpretation of those Dreams and Visions of the night which haveappeared unto me also read the writting and tell me the meaning thereof Now mark Daniel was not hasty to answer the King in these things nor was hee though a Prophet of God and filled with the Spirit of the holy God swift in speaking unto this great King nor did the Prophet when he did speak tell the King any thing but the truth and that which God gave him a perfect and cleare sight of and then with holy booldness in no small authority did Daniel tell the King the meaning and the interpretation of the whole matter Farther Daniel spake of great and wonderfull things that God had then given him to behold and see But neither the King councellers preists not subjects understood him nor do very many unto this day This Prophet of God was then had in great Esteem by the King for that of God which was manifested by him in so much that Darius highly promoted and greatly Esteemed him so did all save the evell and wicked Priests Counsellers and People such wicked ones as had before instigated King Nebuchadnezzer to throw Shadrach Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace only for their speaking the truth unto all to wit to the People Priests Counsellers and Kings Now take notice and see where any of those sad things had ever come upon those great Kings of Babylon had they not suffered the Children of the most high God to have been so wickedly abused as they were But God is just and a recompeneer of every one according to his or their deeds done in the flesh whither they be good or evill for Kings or Emperours must not thinke to escape the just hand of God though they may be above law and out of the reach of man And a just recompence of reward ye an exemplary one doth God usually render unto every man that turneth not to him in time such was Belshazzars reward for while he was Drinking wine in Booles to the confusion of the God of the children of light his Kingdome was taken from him mark that And after him succeeded King Darius who had Daniel the Prophet in very great Esteem yet how wickedly did Darius and his evil counsellers Act in making a Law that none should for forty daies pray for any thing save unto the King and unto this decree did Darius unwisely signe and when he had so inconsidratly signed that Law and decree Marke and see what followed They threvv Daniel the Prophet into the Lyons Den onely for praying unto the God of light And hath not this been the wicked practices of the Kings Counsels priests and powers of the Earth unto this day Yes yes it hath And no sooner at any time when light hath sprang up and broke forth and God raised up Prophets and People unto himselfe then the powers of the Earth both Kings Priests and Rulors yee and soldiers too have combyned together and taken counsel of the evill one and one of another and thereupon they have made decrees and laws to throw in to holes and dens and to stone kill burne hang frye broile banish and to destroy the Prophets yee the true Prophets children of light who have not provesied lyes in the Name of Iesus but truth nor have they divined for mony nor preached for hire nor for filthy Luker and Gayne as persecutors and blood-suckers belly-gods and blind guides do use to do Who do greedily seek at this very day and time to devoure the flock of Christ ye the true and lively flock and followers of God and Christ Now is there not very great need and necessity that you the people and powers of the Earth should be put in mind of these things Least you should post altogether into blood misery and confusion and many of you goe headlong to Hell for such Priest such a and People Be therefore warned intreated once more you that Rule over men to be just loving tender kind merciful for the merciful shall find mercy and they that rule over men should and ought to be just and for the praise of them that do well and for the punishment of evill doers least God smite you with his severe rod and judgements before you are willing or are prepared for it And now you that rule for God labour to feel the blessing in well doing and to see how many have suffered before your faces for evill doing and you that are in adversity as vvell as they that are in prosperity Consider I beseech you what God requireth at your hands also what he is now doing upon the Earth O that it might not be laid any more to your charge you mighty and powerful men the neglecting of your duties vvhen you have had povver enough in your hands to do good that then you have not done it But evill and thus evilly have yourequited God for all his kindness love mercies goodness and good vvill tovvards you Friends have not some in these dayes bin beaten vvith many stripes and hovv can you your selves think to escape the hand and just Judgments of the Lord God sure you cannot Escape them for Gods hand is stretching out against you Therefore all yee children of men learn to know that God is good to Israel and unto them that are of a pure and upright heart for a vvitness yee a svvife vvitness he is and vvill be against the evil ones Especially against the lofty ones of the Earth that vvorke iniquity And novv unto you O People Priests Kings and Rulers that have been in England vvithin this 20 years last past are now there Query Whither you have not found that to be true vvhich the Prophets have spoken off and foretold you vvhat vvould come And as sure as that is come vvhich is already past so sure vvill the remainder of this Prophesy be fullfilled and Heaven and Earth shall pass avvay before
whole Earth Friends these things have been wonderfully revealed and made manifest unto mee from the Lord God Almighty in so much that I have often times been made to tremble before the living God in the seeing and beholding thereof And Verely true it is the Lord God Almighty is just in bringing thee O King of England with others in over your enemies it being according to his revealed word in and unto me long before it came to pass And as true it is that God the Lord of Hoasts is a rewarder of every man according to his or there workes and deeds done in the flesh wheither they be good or evell And wheither canst thou O Man O King flye from the presence of the Lord God Almightie Lord of Lords and King of Kings Verelie I knovv not vvheither thou canst flye from the presence of the great God for fly whethersoever thou wilt God will follovv thee vvith his judgments untill the measure of thine iniquities are full This have I seen and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it unto me Forther I have in the light of God seen terrible and dreadfull things that shall come upon the Earth some of vvhich are not as yet lavvfull for me to utter but vvhat is lavvfull and layd upon me to signifie unto thee and unto the children of men I have and shall freely doe it marke therefore vvhat followeth I have often times seen acertain number of men nigh thee O King of England I say I have certainly seen a number of men nigh thee O King severall times in consultation counselling thee to doe the things that are not good neither in the sight of God or man viz consulting together hovv they with thee might rid thy Territories and Dominions so called of an innocent harmeles quiet peacable people that hurt you not nor vvill they harm any body Though the bloody minded of all sorrs doe goe about to make thee O King and others believe other ways of us But my God vvill Ere long revvard all such with the evell of there ovvne doings For there vvill yet be greater tribulations upon the Earth then ever Also I have in the light of the Lord seen great Lightnings and Thunders that shall be the tirribleness thereof shall make both men and beasts affraid insomuch that they shall not know what to do nor whither to goe to hide themselves from the presence of the Almighty I have also seen other dreadful and tirrible sights vvhich shall be seen upon the Earth such things when they come as will amaze terrifie and confound many of them that believe not in the living God For Signes and Wonders there must be for a while that so the unbelievers may believe and know that Gods Word is true which he hath spoken in these last dayes by his Servants and Prophets Now in this Book is part of Englands dome to come Demonstrated Therefore do I once more according to the Requirings of God made manifest in and unto me beseech you the Povvers and People of that place not to harden your hearts any longer least more of you become as Pharoahs And do not you blind guids of the Earth Hirelings of any sort go about any longer to make your Masters and People believe that there are no true Prophets novv upon the Earth for in your vvillfullness darkness blindness and ignorance of God and of his misteries Christ being unto you a misterie I say in your ignorance and blind Zeal you have hitherto gon about to make both the Povvers and People of the Earth believe a lye and you have insenced both the People Povvers of the Earth against the Children of Light Servants and Prophets of God vvhom God hath raised up to bear testamony unto his name and truth as it vvas in the begining and it vvould have been better for you if you had not so doné sure I am if the Testamony of Jesus be the spirit of Prophecy as I both knovv believe it is Then God hath many true Prophets novv upon the Earth who have and do in Gods Name Authority Power and Strength Prophecy yea and they have foretould you the People Priests and Powers of England c. what would come upon you part whereof is already come to pass and the remainder is comming and such dare not Preach Lies in the Name of God and Christ as the false Christians blind Guides and Hirelings of the Earth do vvho Preach for Hire and Divine for Money and so Ride both Povvers and People even to Death And now had not the Lord God Almighty given such his servants 〈…〉 of things to come they durst not have so spoken and vvrote as they have Novv vvould the former King Povvers Priests and People of England but have believed that vvhich vvas said unto them from God by his servants vvho vvere Inabled both to speak and write unto them sure there had been no more Innocent blood spilt after the first War in England was ended but they vvould not believe nor take council of God by his Children but in stead thereof they to wit the greatest and vvisest of them vvould do as many Great Mighty Wise and Noble novv do laugh jere scoffe at them vvhich God had inabled comanded to speak to them vvho from God did positively fore-tell them of their ruine destruction as they do of yours novv if you repent not and turn not unto God For there vvill yet be greater trouble upon the Earth then ever vvas Also there vvill be Earth-quakes in some places of the World that vvill svvallovv up many if not vvhole Countries Farther there vvill be a Nation born in a day These things hath the Almighty God given me a perfect and clear fight off as if they were already past vvith many more vvhich as yet I have no Authority nor command from on High to publish but this my God and Father hath already assured me that whatsoever of it shall make for his Glory and for his Peoples good he will in his ovvn time give me povver and strength to declare it and for that vvhich doth particularly concern some men I shall in Gods time faithfully signifie it unto them Novv blessed are the Mercifull for they shall find Mercy in the day which is nigh at hand when God will poure forth the Vials of his wrath judgment and Indignation upon the disobedient for Gods determination is so to do also God is staining the Glory of all flesh that so none may glory any more in the flesh but in the Lord aloan who is Head over all Now judgment is not only begun at the House of Gōd but it is gon and going forth against Sathan and his Instruments every where and all such as are found in Rebellion and Disobedience against God shall have no true comfort rebellion against God being as the sin of witchcraft say for all such as shall be found in this iniquity of rebellion against God and in truth and
peace-breaking and in blood-guiltiness persecution sin superstion Idolitry shall have but little quiet for God hath determined vvonderfull things to be And these things herein called Englands dome hath been from God often times signified unto me to be that which vvill surely come upon Englands Inhabitants so sure vvill they come as that which is allready past for none shall hinder the decree of God Now vvhen the Lord God Almighty first began to open these things unto me great vvere his mercies and infinit was his loving kindnes in and unto me insomuch that if I had the tongue of men and Angels I were not able to express and declare it I being but as a child and one as vvith a stamering tongue hath in the strength of my God 〈◊〉 made manifest vvhat God hath at present required at my hands this being written from the requirings of God the latter end of the yeare 1661. I say this called Englands dome vvas then vvritten but the other things vvere vvriten at other times Novv the mightie vvonderfull and povverfull appearances of the Lord God of Wisdom were such in and unto me for days and nights that had not God in his mercy and goodnes tovvards me borne up my Spirits I had then laid dovvn the body for vvhen God thus opened revealed these things in and unto me and gave me thus to behold see his great and Glorious presence I then had a cleare sight of all these things herein mentioned and then even then I beheld and savv dreadfull and terible things that the vvicked of the Earth should in a little time more be found doing of against the Godly further the Bloodsheding misery Calamity and confusion that in the light of God I then savv coming not only in upon poor England but else where vvould make the stoutest Kings Princes Priests and People of the Earth there harts to tremble and quake to behold and see it as I have done And this sound of the Spirit of God have often passed through mee O what would I do to save this people So that through mercy I can truly say testifie to the vvhole world that God is good to Israel unto them that obey him are of a pure and upright heart also that this Gods wonderfull dealings vvith me is not for naught for in the middest and deapth of all our tribulations suffrings and aflictions that vvee the People of God and sheepe of our Fathers pasture may yet meet vvith all I say from God that in the hight of all our enemies fury towards us God the Lord of Hoast vvill deliver us his poor innocent and oppressed ones that abide and trust in him these things hath my God opened and perfectly shevven unto me againe and again yea and sealed them unto and in me to the end that I should publish them unto the sons and daughters of men that so all the People of God on earth may be comforted yee and be made to abyde stedfast and unmoveable allvvays abounding in the vvorke and service of God in the middest of our greatest suffrings And novv vvhile the vvicked doe vvalke on every side and the vildest of men are exalted let us the People of God be ever more found doing our Fathers vvill one Earth as it is in Heaven and as much good to our enemies as vvee can for in our so doing our God and Father vvill be vvell pleased vvith us and he vvill delight himselfe in us to the perfecting of his praise for us and by us And for all you Kings Princes Rulers Preists People and Povvers of the Earth of the Earthly mind Flatter not your selves any longer and suffer not your selves to be deceived and flatred withall fauned upon by your high Priest blind guids for such doe but sevv pillows of downe under you vvhich vvill deceive both you and them at last I say deceive not your selves nor them that you have povver authority over But turne you unto the light of God vvhile you have a day and time and ceace from sin you little and lofty ones of the Earth and do good and be yee all found in Moderation and in the vvorks of holines rightousnes peace and truth for the Lords sake other vvayes it vvill goe very hard with you all I doe assure you And novv vvhosoever you be that shall be found in the path of righteousnes peace and truth and in vvell doing also in moderation it may then be trulie hoped that such people doe knovv that the Lord God Almighty is nigh at hand to judgment for sin And for all you Kings Rulers and people that shall be found in the exercise of the things that are good you shall have true comfort therein and the tryal of your faith and patience in your so doing vvill be of much more comfort unto you then all your Earthly crovvns yea then al your gold honour that perisheth now that true honour which cometh from above is first pure then peacable it is also gentle and easy to be intreated it is also full of love good vvorks and vvhat not that is of good and of honest report and sure I am that all they that live in this moderation be they Kings or others they must needs knovv good from evill and avoid the one and love the other And novv friends did you but knovv vvho it vvas that came from Bozero vvith his Garments rouled in blood sure you would tremble for he it is that is come and comming to judge the Earth yea to judge both the quick and dead or did you but consider as vvell as knovv that some men for sheding of innocent blood have already payed deare you vvould then seace from blood and never do iniquity more Novv doe you not knovv that blood is a crying sin and that the cry thereof hath often reached unto Heaven And hovv God remembreth it and that he vvill be avenged thereof Have you forgotten that God judgeth amongst the Gods and do you not knovv for vvhat God hath cast dovvn some and raised up others and hovv he giveth the Kingdomes of men unto vvhomsoever he pleaseth and that he is no respector of persons and vvill you yet go on in your sins sure you that Rule over men ought to be kinde loving mercifull and just I say unto you vvhosoever you be that thus hunger and thirst after innocent blood God vvill give you blood to drink again at last bring you into confusion vvoe missery torment and trouble for there is innocency in many vvho thirst not after blood and vvrath in the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the vvorld on their behalfe and God my God vvill in a little time more manifest it and make it apeare unto all thevvorld And then you that have seen this Testimony vvill say that this vvas a plaine and faithfull vvarning as vvell as a loving invitation foresight and 〈◊〉 for the healing of the Nations and People of the Earth especially them of England And now I tell you in England c. make vvhat confedracies you vvill vvith in your selves vvith Death and Hell that tends to blood the Lord God omnipotent God over all vvill reveale and discover it God in his own time vvill blast you it that shall be found therein Also make vvhat conjunctions confedracies you vvill vvithin your selves and vvith other Nations vvho are infatuated as vvell as you it shall all be for the fullfilling and accomplishing of these things herein spoken off and treated on Friends novv learn to knovv that God is he vvhich maketh all things manifest Therefore wait patiently in God all ye children of light and be still and think not much any of you at your sufferings for God beholdeth it and taketh care of all you that trust in him For through suffrings must redemption come Also knovv if any shall say he or they hath a Revelation or Prophesie and commeth in the name of the Lord and speaketh falsly the Lord God will reward such with the evil of their own doings therefore let no man destroy such also if any man shall draw back from the service of the living God my soul saith God through me shall have no pleasure in such let no man therefore now neglect to do the service and requirings of God Friends I say again wait patiently in God and see what a fevv yeares more will bring forth and be not impatient but watch and pray that can and as it is said before so doe And now take no care when you or any of you shall be had before Kings and Princes for his name sake or before other Rulers for the Lord careth for you and remember that it be the patient and the meek that do and shall iuherit the Kingdome that cannot be removed in which Kingdome is the Crownimmortall which fadeth not away its Gods Kingdome And for thou O King of England let this folowing Counsell be acceptable vnto thee amongst the rest Break thou of thy sins by Righteousness and thine Iniquities by showing mercy unto the poore if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillitie But if thou shalt yet goe on in the fullfilling of thy lust and in suffering the truly Inocent peaceable people of God to be worrowed brused abused and beaten a while Longer as they have bin As heavey a hand from the Lord God Allmighty will fall upon thee and them that cause such Greiuious and abominable things to be don as hither to hath bin don and Inflicted upon Gods pore babes Lambs and little ons As ever fell upon King Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzer or Darious For Great Babelon is still in Remembrance before the Great God of heaven and Earth whose reward is nye for all There Creueltyes don unto the saints and people of God The End
him let us always pray and ever more rejoyce and now take heed all ye my dear Friends Bretheren and Sisters of negligence and of slothfullnesse in business and of drawing back from the service of the living God into wayes of sin and perdition for if any so doe the Lords soule will have no pleasure in them Therefore have a care my deare Friends and so run that you may obtaine for there is a victory but it is in God in which victory there is a conquest over sin death hell and the grave and a continuall living in and an Abyding with God as in the begining yee and in a more unutterable and glorious state then Paradice O my tongue cannot declare the glory endlesness and unutterablenesse thereof The whole is the glory of God and that through mercy I have and doe injoy a measure off and had I the tongue of men and Angels I were not able to declare the whole its endless and Fathomless yea its past finding out But the babe of glory that 's faithfull shall live in and abide in it here and for ever world without end And in this life is the glory honour and renown that God will cloath his withall and in time he will make all his as the Lillie which doth neither toyle nor spin but yet doth grow up and Prosper Oh what shall I say my tongue is not able to express the infinit glory that is in God for all them that love and fear his holy glorious name and now the burthen that I have on me for the whole creations deliverance is unknown for my bowels and all that is within mee do earn after yee after all them that do hunger and thirst after the righteousness of the living God that so they may all be brought into the knowledge and enjoyment of the one onely true way and into that sheepe fold vvhich is the light Christ vvhich leadeth into the life of God that 's Eternall immortall and everlasting for God is the vvay the truth and the life also there is a care in mee that none be lost and a sympathy and fellow feeling in me of some that through negligence c. are apt to draw back from the service of the living God in the sence and feeling thereof God hath inclined my heart and moved me to write these Letters c. and commanded me to send them forth amongst you the sonnes and daughters of men that so your rejoycing may be in the Lord over all Friends these are dayes of tryalls and of Winnowings and siftings that so the Temples of God may be made clean and may no more be defiled nor any Mony-changers suffered to dwell or abide therein for all that defileth the Temples of God must be whipped and scourged out for that will God destroy yea all that letteth must be taken out of the way also all that worketh or maketh a lie for greedy gain and filthy lucre That so God may be as he is all and in all unto them that truly know love feele and feare his holy blessed and glorious name Therefore my deare friends Brethren and Sisters and all others that would be accounted Christians learn to know and do the will of God which is Sanctification in the cross unto all that is not of God And now let all such as profess themselves to be wisdoms children walk in the light in all things as he to wit Christ is in the light that so you may all Iustifie wisdom and thereby manifest your selves to be the children of the most high in deed and in truth Christians indeed like God and Christ Then shall the mouth of iniquitie be stopt you shall see feel and know God exalted and exalting himselfe in you over all that 's humane and setting himself in you upon the top of all mountaines And then shall you know feel and see God reigning and ruling in and over you his temples not made with hands for ever and ever also you shall then know him to lead guid govern teach and direct you in every thing you doe distinct from Satan and then Satans workes will be known unto you as they are unto God a Loathing and an Abomination And though as yet some of you have not known witnessed nor felt God so to reign and rule c. in and over you yet God will in patience posess your soules Therefore in the light of God say I againe wait and be still that at all times you may know and heare the voyce of God in you from Satans and feel the power of God in you that resisteth evill and the Appearances and motiones thereof for that onely will make the evill one to flie It 's God Emmanuel God with and in us Then shall you be kept alive in God and in perfect peace whose mindes are stayed on thee O God of life light strengh power and glory yee in that peace and dominion over all deceit that passeth all understanding which will continually keep your hearts and mindes alive in the knowledge and love of God Amen so fare ye well This Letter was written the latter end of the Sixth moneth 1662. and sent from farre with the rest of these things into England From him that 's yours in him that 's ever lasting God blessed for ever and ever world without end Amen Emmanuel Israelite The name of the Lord is now as well as of old a strong Tower the Righteous flye into it and are safe A Few Lines more for thee O England and for thy lofty ones in thee and for all others of thine inhabitants also for the inhabitants of the whole Earth Friends THe Lord God Almighty hath in these latter days raised up Prophets as of Old to tell you and to foretell you what have and vvill befall you as it hath befallen them that vvent before you yet many of you that are now alive and in power will not hear nor believe them no more then they would that went before you nor vvill you obey the word of the living God nor hearken too nor hear his voice as you ought to do but you will harden your hearts as they of Old did in the wildernesse vvhen your Fathers tempted him But because many of you novv in England and Else-where will not believe the word of the Lord out of the mouthes of his servants and Prophets but are Curious and unbelieving what the Prophets and servants of the Lord have already said unto you should come Therefore hath the Lord God Almighty suffered signes miracles and wonders upon the Earth and in the Ayre both lying ones and true and all this is to convince you that are unbelievers of the great Judgments of the Lord God that are nigh at hand come and coming amongst and upon you the Inhabitants of the Earth And as Nebuchadnezzer Belshazzer and Darius Kings of Babylon did even so have some great ones amongst you in England done viz. sent for Astrologers Southsayers Socerers and
one Jot or tittle of these things shall faile for such hath the Lord God Almighty raysed upin the midest of you in these latter dayes that have told you fore told you from God vvhat vvould come and vvhat is coming amongst you and upon you and out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings vvill God perfect his prayes for through such hath the Lord God Almighty often spoken to the former Powers Priests and People of England c. As vvell as unto you And unto you the Powers Priests People of Eng. that now are hath God spoken these things that are come and coming upon you and vvhilst Gods judgements are upon the earth the inhabitants thereof should and ought to learn righteousnesse for the Lord God hath sent you in this ages as vvell as them in other ages many vvarnings by his servants the Prophets though you the Priests Powers and People of the Earth have not heeded them as you ought to do mark that as vvell as vvhat follovveth For novv the Father of faithfullnesse God hath made and is making good his vvord spoken by his Prophets of Old to vvit that old Men should dreame dreames also that young men should see visions and that God vvould in the latter dayes povver forth his Spirit aboundantly upon his Sonnes and Daughters and inable both Sons and hand-Mayds to Prophesic speak and vvrite also that some in seeing should not see and in hearing they should not understand as God the Father of faithfullnes hath spoken so hath he made good his word spoken in all ages and as God did of old speak in unto his servants the Prophets even so hath did he speak in tome at sundry places and at several times in this latter age in these particulers to wit in speaking to in foreshewing me the dovvnfall of the old King of England Charles the First and many great ones more the Rice and Fall of the Cromwels the ruine of the Parliament and Army telling them hovv often God vvould have gathered them to himself even as a Henn gathereth her chickings but they vvould not Novv marke and see vvhat follovved thereupon nothing say I but destruction And as the High-Priests Seribes and Pharises did even so have some latly done in England I say they have given up the innocent People of God into the hands of Rulers and rude People to be hardly dealt vvith all Such vvere they that Crucified and killed Christ as had joyned them selves unto idols and vvere vvedded there unto and resolved they vvere to goe on in there idolletry and vvill vvorship untill God came dovvne vvith his severe judgments upon them And though the vvicked may doe vvickedly for a vvhile in labouring to keepe the ignorant and simple People in sin superstition and idolletry ye and in blindness and darkness c. Yet knovv that God vvill not allvvays be so mocked Therefore frends take heed all you that drive on so Iehu-like in persecuting the People and Children of God for it vvas once vvritten from the Spirit of the holy God that the Rod of the vvicked should not all vvayes rest upon the back of the righteous mark that For vvhosoever they be that have yet in this latter age gone about to Lord it over Gods heritage and thereupon have persecuted and smitten the Babes Lambs and little ones Children of Light and they that have thereby had thoughts to vveary out the Saints and children of the most High God they have hither to been broken and have broken one another to pieces and many of them that so did are allready ground to povvder O vvicked Generation of vipers that have in all ages thus risen up against God and his povver life light and truth made manifest in Gods people have you not been often vvarned to fly from the vvrath to come by the Prophets and have you not been desired to decist from your bloody and cruel intentions and from the evill of your vvays in killing and Crucifiing the Lord of life light and glory a fresh and of puting him to open shame againe and againe in his People and have you not been warned to fly from such abominations as these and to seek reconciliation with God and Man yee with God and good men while you have a day and time and not to destroy such as feare the Lord but it seems you will not stay your hearts in God nor restrain your hands from blood cruelty perfecution and so forth But you will fight against the witness of God in your selves and others and so forget the sure mercies of David untill the judgments of the Lord God almighty overtake you againe Friends have not you the Backsliders in heart every where been the greatest persecutors you that of old promised better things then these and have not you the Backsliders in heart been filled with your own ways and have you not often times been confused as it were confounded with the wicked devices of your own hearts in almost every thing and have you in these last 20 years Revolutions learned no more no better things then these have your persecutions and suffrings taught yōu no more good yet what think you vvill become of you vvhile you are thus found fighters against God and the mercies that you have had vvhat vvil become of you that think to eat up Gods children like Bread and to scatter drive his flock upon the Mountains by your vvolfuish actions tovvards them as if they vvere not creatures of Gods ovvn making or your fellow creatures Give over your persecution in time I pray you least at last you dig a pit and be buried therein your selves And novv O Lord passe by the innocent blood that hath been allready spilt in poor Ireland England and Scotland O hovv did the bloody Papists at the first Rip up the poore Protestant Women great vvith child in many places in poore Ireland and all from the instigation of sathan and the Blood-sucking Priests vvho pretended for a moderate Episcopal Clergy there such vvere they that had a hand in that Bloody Massacre at the beginning of the late Warre in that place and in Englands former and latter Martyrdoms Be novv therefore convinced of your sins in time and learn to knovv that God 〈◊〉 have the hearts of Kings as vvell as Rulers and People in his ovvn hands Therefore O Lord of Hosts turne the hearts of Kings as well Rulers and People if it be thy vvill that so they may in time come and stoop unto they Septer for all the powers on Earth must come and bring their glory and honour unto God or else they vvill Perish For ever and ever For novv the hand of the Lord God Almighty is stretched forth over all and none can hinder God from makeing good his ovvne decree revealed sealed unto mee vvhich in the General is that he will breake all the Kingdoms and People of the Earth in pieces that vvill not have Christ to
Rule in and over them the mouth of the Lord off Hosts hath spoken it unto me O Remember remember therefore all ye Sons and Daughters of men yee that drink Wine in Boules and go on in your forgetfullness of God and his mercies you that sport your selves in your ovvn lusts yee in the lust of your mindes the lust of the Eye and the pride of life vvhich is the flesh the World and the divell I say remember that Tophat vvas prepared of old for such yee for the Rebellious and disobedient though they were never so mighty and great and novv learn to knovv that God the Lord of Hosts is no respector of Persons and for Bishops that are not as the Bishops spoken off in the Scriptures of truth vvere They are a loathing and an abomination unto God for such God hath allready spevved out of his mouth and so vvill he do again And for all you that are novv in prosperitie take heed least that glory you novv have be stayned againe by your slaying more of Gods poor Babes and Lambs and Sheepe of our Fathers pasture O that ever fulness of bread and plenty should cause great men so to forget God and that ever Gods goodness and mercie should so puffe up men as it hath novv in this generation done many vvho not long agoe had scarce Bread to eat or Garments to put on Verily friends vvhosoever you be that vvill not turn to the light and living God but vvill goe on in your fins ' abyde in your filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit God vvill judge you and at last destroy you Youridols Temples cannot nor shall 〈◊〉 you the decree of God is gon forth and sealed against such as vvorship idols and vvill not turn unto him And for you that vvill and doe but truly turne from the evill of your vvays and come unto God God vvill love and imbrace you in his everlasting armes of kindnes and cover you as vvith a garment and then you shall by little and little see the glory of God in the Land of the living and perhaps you shall as others have done before you see Gods wonders in the deep for so did King David vvho after his great abominations and turning unto God again and so have some others done after there returne unto God their maker insomuch that their whole lives have been lives of hearty sorrow and of everlasting praises And such can never sufficiently nor enough admire God and as David saith in the 107. Psalme so say I. O That the Children of men would but admire God for his vvonderfull works done unto and amongst the Children of men And in the conclusion of that Psalm the writer thereof saith Who so is vvise let them observe these things and they shall see the loving kindness of the Lord And so say I though they be Kings And when God shall raise up such a King to beare rule amongst any people let it be where it will the Lord God of heaven and earth will bless and prosper such a one while he shall faithfully continue and abide in God and then all his works and undertakeings for God on Earth shall prosper and such a King shall be blessed for ever and ever And then none can nor shall make such a one affraid for if he doth well who then shall harm him but if he doth evill while he so doth sin will continue and lie at his doore yee at Kings doors as well as at others For such as wee sovve such usually do we reap yee some times double and what measure men meet it is usualy measured unto them again Therefore leave off all your Idoll-Gods for shame all ye Kings and pretended Christians leave of say I all you High priests your superstitions Cerimonies Surplisces Pipes singing-boyes and sursingles for they are all a loathing and an abomination unto God plaine down right Popery against which the vvitness of God is gone forth And now take heed I pray and beseech all you Kings Priests and People of the Earth for the Lord sake of praying or finging out of the Spirit of God for that is but a deceiving of your selves and others that is a mocking of God and whither you see it or believe it or no it is so and where you will hear or forbear it is all a case for Gods word and witness is true and it will in his owne time prove so and you the powers of the Farth shall assuredly know and feel it so to be And for you that scoffe at the light you Ignorantly or knowingly scoffe at that vvhich you live move by for by the light all men have their moving living and being even while they dvvell in darkness and in the shadovv of death do doe the deceivers vvork upon the Earth for light hath shined in darknes but the darknes comprehendeth it not Take heed therefore and bevvare of Gods heavie judgments all you that laugh and scoffe at Gods people that vvalk in God are turned to the light and at their praying in the Spirit or by the spirit for such their have been and novv are that have been and are vvhole days in the Spirit yee and nights too vvhom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath heard and ansvvered And though you the povvers of the Earth should combine altogether and make never so many decrees against such a praying People as Daniel the Prophet c. vvas yet they vvill vvhile they have life pray as Daniel did and some such do certainly knovv that God vvill at last break all your cords in sunder and in the mean time preserve them And novv vvhile you the povvers of the Earth doe make such lavvs and decrees against Gods praying Spirit in man the mouth of the Lord of Hosts vvill be against you I say in God that God hath determined that his People must and shall pray unto him in the Spirit yee and vvorship him in the Spirit and honour him and all men in the Spirit for God himselfe is head over all yee over all principallities and povvers and Spirituall vvickedness in high places and thus God hath and vvill rebuke Kings for his ovvn and Peoples sake the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it And novv the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our Father hath required commanded and in abled us 〈…〉 to pray against Spiritual vvickedness in high places and for all them that are in Authority over us that so under them vve may live a godly and peaceable life vvhich vvee the People of God doe and shall doe Farther I am sure that God hath novv made some of his People vvatchmen in Israel vvhom he hath commanded and required to give him no rest untill he hath made Ierusalem the praise of the vvhole Earth And this the Lord our righteousness who is life light povver and glory hath raysed up Prophets and children unto himselfe to pray unto him in the spirit
A FEW LINES MORE For thee O ENGLAND And for thy Lofty ones in thee And for all others of thine IN HABITANTS vven forth and sent abroad into the world with two letters for the comfort and consolation of the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated Flock in Christ and mourners amongst them wheresoever they be 〈◊〉 the end the Children of Light and all they that hunger and thirst after righteousnes may be comforted and refreshed in God in the middest and depth of all their persecutions tribulations sufferings and afflictions that they may yet meet withall from wicked cruel and unreasonable men who take delight to crucifie the Lord of life light and Glory a fresh and put him to open shame in his people Also a few lines for the wicked People and powers of the World with some wholsome Councel and good advice given unto me from the Lord God Almighty to give unto them especially unto the people and powers of England Ireland Scotland Holland and Germany where the name of God hath been and is so emenently professed and so great a reformation pretended that so they may all hearken unto hear and obey the voyce of God and so live in love and peace out of persecution and at last sit down in the Kingdom of glory with Abraham Isaac and Iacob And therefore and pray that can that ye enter not into temptations for a work of wonders is the Lord my God farther a doing in and upon the Earth And for all you Loftyons of the Earth that rebell against God know that except you repent you shall likewise perrish Luke 13. ver 3. and 5. And the Lord shall cut of all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psalm 12. ver the 3. as he hath hither to done An Epistle to the Reader LEt this serve as a warning and as an invitation of love for all people great and small high and loe rich and poor old and young professors and prophane to turn you all that are not yet turned unto the living God for it is brought forth to publique view in its appointed season and time part whereof is already fullfilled and the remainder is fullfilling apace yee in our dayes and age Watch therefore and pray that can that you enter not into temptation for the Lord God Almighty hath not forgotten to be gracious nor hath his compassions at any time failed any of the sonnes and daughters of men that have turned unto him and walked and abode in his light life and dostrine And because some of you in England c. have misspent your precious time in makeing a mock of sin And have made an ill use of your stewardships in the ill management of your affairs so mercifully friendly and favourably put into your hands therefore is this most principally directed unto you to let you know that God is angry with you and that he will ere long be avenged on you for you in England hath the Lord God began vvithall first And there vvill the Lord Jehovah make his name famous and everlastingly Glorious also God hath and vvill vvork vvonders there as vvell as in other places and none shall let or say vvhat dost thou Friends be not angry nor partial vvho ever you be that hear or read this And be not deceived God is not mocked Gal. 6. ver 7. But in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ see vvhither you have not almost sinned avvay your most precious time and trifled away the dayes of your visitation in all manner of excess And for you that have not so spent your precious time that Gods spirit hath not done striving in you or vvith you and you are not become as Pharoahs then turn you unto the light within you and obey the voice of God in you for that is it which vvill lead you into the living life if you be found faithful to God for that light in you vvhither you knovv or believe in it or no is of God it is that in man vvhich shevveth man good and evil and it vvill one day Judge you and if you doe but a little consider it will now shew you vvhat you are And what you have been and then if you or any of you that have been and are abominable sinners shall in the true light and sence of your conditions cleave unto God and for sake your sins and all your abominable doings then shall you soon know a curb to your lusts and wicked wills and such of you as shall thus truly turn unto God and follovv him you shall quickly come to know feel and see a bridle to your Tongues and vvhat it is to be made partakers of the glory of the Lord in the Land of the living for the living be they that shall praise thee o God vvhen the dead though alive and them in the grave though once never so mighty and great cannot for the dead be they that shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear and obey God shall live forever and ever vvorld vvithout End Amen And now my Friends every vvhere Arise from the dead and come forth and sing all ye that dwell in the dust for God is Just and the Avenger he is of the cause of the innocent who hath often times sealed the deliverance of his people unto mee and I am sure that God is rode forth Conquerring and to Conquer all the vvorld over and to make a short vvork in righteousnesse upon the Earth And God it is in Men Women and Children every vvhere that calleth them to a turning unto himselfe and to repentance from dead works and to a seasing from sin that so they may serve the living God in newness of life and vvalking uprightly before God in true holinesse peace and righteousness all the dayes of their lives vvhich many have promised God so to doe in the dayes of their distresses but some of them have forgotten that and so have sinned against light as well now as formerly in runing a whoring after their own inventions lusts and immaginations c. And thus they have and doe provoke the just and Iealous God of Heaven and Earth to vvrath against them who is not slack in justice and judgment And therefore I plainly tell you who ever you are that your going on in sin have and will be your missery your not seaâ—sing from persecution superstition sin Idolitry is that which have provoked the just and jealous God to wrath judgement and indignation against you I say God is now as well as of old jealous of his name in the children of Men and his Glory He will not give to graven immages though many now adaies so do mark that For such do dayly persecute and afflicting the children of the most high God that God which heareth and answereth prayers who hath heard and answered his people and God the mighty Iehovah hath diverted as well as revealed many of your secret