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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27142	A word from the Lord to the priests of England in general that teach for hire	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1545; ESTC R14008	2,738	6

A WORD From the LORD To the PRIESTS OF ENGLAND In General that teach for HIRE HEar O ye Priests of England the word of the Lord God as it came unto me in the year 1659. the sixth moneth the twenty fifth clay of the moneth saying Thus saith the Lord God I le make you a terror to your selves and one to another and I le strike you with amazements and fears and bring everlasting shame upon you and you shal be a hilling and a bye word to Nations and a dirision to Generations for as much as you have refused and rejected the day of your visitation my witnesse in you shall condemn you and my power shall shake you and make your hearts to melt and tremble at my dreadful presence ye that have been a terror to others and a burthen and oppressors of my dear Children and Servants which in my pure power was moved to warn you to flee from the wrath to come you shall be oppressed burthened and terrified and there will be none to deliver you for he that should be your deliverer will be your eternal condemnation therefore wo be to you O ye proud prophane hirelings of England your day is hastening wherein your perpetual shame contempt and misery shall be made manifest to thousands have you not been long leaders of the people and called your selves Ministers of the Gospel but the Gospel which is my power saith the Lord God shall grinde you to powder and have you not caused the people to erre from the knowledge of my way the light in every mans conscience which shews them sin and evil and have you not risen up with an open mouth against my Son Christ the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World and have you not blasphemed my Holy Name and caused many of my dear and tender children to suffer grievous burthens and reproaches persecutions and long imprisonments by crying out errors deceivers seducers and blasphemy against them but as I live saith the Lord God these things which you have swallowed down shal you vomit up again and if none of you will yet bow down to my witnesse the Light in you which lets you see the evil of your waies you shall become the apparentest example of my wrath indignation as hath not been known in many ages therefore if any of you shal yet consider the end of your waies and speedilie repent and turn from your evil deeds and words and confesse to my Son the true Light which you have so long done despite unto it may be such may be hid in the terrible day at hand for thus saith the Lord God even the Lord of hosts my determination is to break to pieces confound root up and overturn destroy and utterlie consume the very savour of your root that earth or earthly power which strives to uphold you shall partake of your plagues I the Lord have spoken it and in mine eternal Councel it shall be accomplished Therefore O ye Priests consider Was not their madnesse and folly made manifest that withstood the truth in ages past Or did ever any weapon formed or Law plot or decree against it and them that were in it prosper and is not Christ Jesus the truth who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and are not they in the truth which be in the light which he hath enlightened them withall and have you not withstood this truth and them that be in it by reproaches revilings persecutions spoiling of goods and imprisonments more cruel and violent then Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses Let Gods witnesse answer which lets you see your ungodly deeds and hard speeches and convinceth you secretly of them when you are alone and heeds it but you are filling up the measures of your Fathers that upon you may be powred down the vengeance for all the righteous blood shed from Zacharias to this day and you shall not proceed any further for then shall your folly madnesse and wickednesse be manifest to all men as theirs was Therefore thus saith the Lord God of power howl howl and lament O ye Idol shepherds and be ashamed of your work O ye slothful vinedressers my fury is exceedingly kindled against you and I am even wearie with forbearing is not your flocks like the wild beasts of the forest and your grapes of the vine of Sodom and your gardens grown over with thorns histles and nettles who of my Lambs and children can come among you and not be torn pusht or rent Who of my Servants have I sent in my power among you that have not suffered violence by you either by your bloodie hands or by your arrowes shot at them even bitter and reproachful words let my witnesse search you and bow down speedily before it least ye utterly fall into my Almighty dreadful hands where you will be plagued and tormented day and night for ever and ever without end for my decree is gone forth concerning you and it s revealed to babes that night is come upon you who have withstood the pure day of light and life in which the Son of man is come as a thief and so you like Judas and his company are risen against him with swords and staves he that readeth let him understand Again hear the word of the Lord O ye treacherous Priests double minded unstable ungodly truce-breakers heady high-minded who have long loved pleasures and ease in the flesh more then the pure God or his righteous way of life your day of perplexity and wo is at hand and you shall not escape For thus saith the Lord God your horses nature within nor your horses without shal not deliver you from my decreed purpose your sword within and without shall be your snare and you shall fall like the handful after the harvest man and be driven like chaffe before the wind for blood-thirsty and deceitful men shall not live out halfe their dayes hear and understand no murtherers have eternal life and the wickeds sword shall enter into his own bowels hear ye Priests of England this I charge upon you to whom it is who have taken my Servants words into your prophane lips saying some trust in horses and some in chariots but we will trust in the Name of the Lord our God are ye not here found deceitful and with a lie in your right hand children of falshood and a seed of evil doers who trust in the arm of flesh and to it stil have fled for your maintenance and been found fighters against the true and living God and his Children for your God which now is manifest to be your bellies to thousands for upon your bellies have you still gone and dust have you eat and with it have you fed the people and not with life nor understanding in my Councel the light which they be lighted withal neither have you awakned my witnes in the hearts of them but in ignorance ease and unrighteousness have you loved to lie down to sleep and slumber with them and are the blind dumb dogs that have not barked to wit spake in my pure power to awaken and answer my own the just in every one whereby the thief and robber might have been seen in the light the éye which none sees you all to be thieves murtherers and robbers that have climbed up another way then by the door Christ who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and have built upon the sand but the storms are rising apace that wil shake you off the earth wherein great will be your fall and you shall never rise again saith the Lord God Almighty VVritten by a Servant of the Lord at Wellingborrow in Northampton-sh●re W. Baily THE END