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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84782	A discovery of some fruits of the profession religion ministry government of this nation, which maketh the land to mourne, and vexeth the soule of the righteous from day to day. Also the relation of the world discovered, and wherein it differs from the pure relation. With a few words to the magistrates that doe cast Christ into prison, and will not visit him when they have done, nor suffer his friends and brethren to visit him.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1795aA; Thomason E863_6; ESTC R36507	6,555	8

A DISCOVERY Of some fruits OF The Profession Religion Ministry Government of this NATION Which maketh the Land to mourne and vexeth the soule of the Righteous from day to day Also the Relation of the world discovered and wherein it differs from the pure Relation With a few words to the Magistrates that doe cast Christ into prison and will not visit him when they have done nor suffer his friends and brethren to visit him OH how doth the Profession Religion and Ministry and Government of this Nation shame it selfe that drunkennesse oaths and cursing is heard in the streets which causeth the Land to mourne and destroys the creatures of the Lord and such the Lord commands his servants and children to reprove and they are made a prey upon who reprove in the Gate sin and evill drunkennesse cursing and swearing which is heard up and down the streets by their faith by their troth and many other oathes when the creatures of God crosse their will they will bid a pox on them and swear as Gods wounds and these cursed languages cursed speakers for reproving such the children of God are hated and persecuted by them that should punish evill doers here justice falls in the streets and righteousnesse is stopt for running down for the cry of righteousnesse is spoken against for when the cry of righteousnesse is sounded in the streets against unrighteousnesse against drunkennesse against deceitfull merchandize cozening and cheating they are sent to prison as peace-breakers and when they cry in the streets against oaths that the Covenant of light might be received and to turne from their oaths unto him who saith Swear not at all which cause the Land to mourne such are cast into Prisons and because they cannot swear but abide in the Covenant of light and life which saith Swear not at all And now is the cry at midnight among all the professions in the world and now is all profession seen and Religion seen to be in the night it is midnight with it and now is the voyce cryed among you that saith All flesh is grasse and shall wither and fade as the flower and God will staine the glory of man and lay the Crowns in the dust and bring the honour into contempt for the end of Religion and Profession is seen to be without the life of what they doe professe for what mocking scorning reproaching plotting and inventing against them that be the children of light who be in the possession and the life of the Scripture what hallowing and shouting there is against them in the streets which is unbeseemly and how do the people manifest that they are ill bred and how doe the people manifest their corrupt manners by their evill communications as let the streets and the high wayes witnesse but how is youth run into wantonnesse which should be kept in sobernesse and ancient people how are they turned into foolishnesse and shame themselves and the breeding of their children which should be trained up in modesty and sobernesse and the fear of the Lord and they themselves walk in gravity adorned with meek and quiet spirits which is with the Lord of great price O how can you but expect Gods judgements to come upon you and his wrath to be turned against you and his fury who with your lips professe him but your hearts be found afar off and his life in practise deny where will you stand in the day of Judgement for you that be wicked will be as the chaffe who in words professe God but in works deny him Was it ever in any age as it is now men that professe the Kingdome of Christ and of God and yet cannot indure to have the Kingdome of Satan to be cryed against to have pride cryed against openly works of darknesse cryed against openly pleasures cryed against openly drunkennesse cryed against openly oppression cryed against openly that which is not just not holy not good cryed against openly and deceitfull merchandise in the markets and lying cryed against openly and fighting quarrelling oathes and cursed speaking cryed against openly which Christ cryed openly against and said Swear not at all whose Kingdome is not of this world and testified against the world that the works thereof are evill therefore they hated him and now men professe his kingdome and yet cannot indure these things to be cryed against and Deceivers and blinde guides cryed against openly they cannot indure as Christ did Mat. 23. and false Teachers to be cryed against openly or writ against openly as Peter and Jude did and as the Prophets Jeremiah Isaiah Micha and Ezekiel did but such as are commanded of the Lord to cry against such and to witnesse against such are with them that professe the Kingdome of Christ persecuted and cast into holes and prisons and yet shame doth not strike their persecutors in the face but God will cover your face with shame and night shall be upon you and all your tinkling and haughtinesse and bravery God will bring down O awake and tremble you carelesse ones that are grown so lofty and fear before the Lord to make a profession of his Son which are not come to own his light which from him doth come and is given to you to believe which if you doe believe you shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life but not believing in the light which is given you to believe this is your condemnation the light saith Christ Oh how doe the Teachers of the world manifest now their folly and madnesse and their persecuting blinde zeal which doth incense the Magistrates to cast the lambs of God into prison how doth the profession of the world who professe a Church and Gospel and Christ young men young women old men old women but now are turned scoffers and mockers which shewes the end of their profession to be without the possession Oh how hath pride stollen away the heart of man from sincerity which carries him after toyes and fables and after fashions and lusts of his eye which manifests to be as the wild Asse-colt and shewes to be as the wild Heifer that shame and modesty is wanting in the streets and there is insteed of that scorne and derision Therefore every one of you having a light from Christ the light of the world who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world which light loving it leads you from the ways of the world and the world for ye cannot be Heires of two Kingdomes And you that cannot indure that wickednesse should be reproved in the Gate but persecute them that doe and cast them into prison you are the incouragers of evill doers and not of that which is good but the Lord God of glory is come and coming to exalt his Kingdome and overthrow wickednesse out of its place and give the glory to his Son and the glory of man staine and confound and exalt his truth and his Kingdome over all which shall answer the

righteousnesse and the Scripture Christ and the Prophets words and live out of their life live in envy malice yet professe you have a Relation to Christ and God whom you have not seen and you love him and doe not love them whom you have seen such Relations we doe deny And all such as cry up your experiences high notions your manifestations as you call them dispensations as you call them and live in pride strife and envy debates derision scorne loftinesse high-mindednesse be out of the light and out of the way in Cains and out of the pure Relation we have a witnesse in your conscience against those things which lets you see what you possesse and let you professe no more if to it you hearken which turns from the world and the Relations therein for all who believe not the light and are not to it come have a love but it is in the world and a Relation but it is in the world which is enmity to God so that relation which is enmity is denyed with the light that love which is enmity is denyed with the light which leads to the pure Relation the pure love which envies not where the destroyer and devourer is rebuked YOu that be Magistrates which doe cast Christ into prison and will not visit him when you have done nor suffer his friends and brethren to visit him in prison and there you keep him in prison till he hunger and thirst and you prison him as a vagabond who hath no place to lay his head sick and in prison and you visit him nor but the corner stone is set up and the rock of ages manifest and him who bears the Government upon his shoulders whose kingdome is without end and dominion hath no end which is an everlasting dominion which dominion is over all dominions whose Scepter is righteousnesse whose Law royall stands over all answereth that of God in all and respects no mans person but is holy just and righteous persect and good whose Priesthood is royall everlasting that never changeth who lighteth every man that cometh into the world that men might believe and see the way out of the world Christ the light the way the truth who is the Covenant of light of peace and of life Was not Christ crucified in Sodome and Gomorrah spiritually and are not they Sodomites that imprison him and are not the Sodomites them that live in fulnesse of bread and idlenesse and the filthy conversation which the righteous soul grieves and vexeth which Christ is Shepheard of and the Bishop who is a witnesse in all consciences which witnesses against the lusts that war against the soul Was not all the profession of Christ before he was manifest in the flesh and when he was manifested in the flesh hypocrisie among them that professe him in words and did not believe in him who was the light but cast him into prison and he was sick and they visited him not and was hungry and they fed him not and he was naked and they cloathed him not such as neither knew his voyce nor the Prophets that shewed the coming of him and is not all the profession of Christ now hypocrisy among them that professe him in words and doe not believe in him who is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world but cast him into prisons and holes and dungeons and he is sick and you visit him not and hungry and you feed him not and thirsty and you give him no drink and naked and you cloath him not but into prison cast him as a vagabond who hath no place to lay his head The foxes have holes and the birds of the aire have nests but the Son of man hath no place to lay his head Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever Therefore awake you Rulers and fear the Lord and hear the voyce of the Son of God that you may live for now is Christ come to reign the same that ever was whom into prison you doe cast and with your wills would not suffer him to reigne but Christ will reign who is not borne by the will of man who is King and rules and now reignes in his Kingdome and dominion which is without end and in his power in his fulnes who filleth all things thousands of his fulnesse have received of his power as many as have received him to become the Sons of God From them whom the world scornfully calls Quakers London Printed for T. Simmons at the Bull mouth near Aldersgate 1656