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A91825	The banner of Gods love, and ensign of righteousness spread over his people in these later dayes. Wherein the true light shineth, and the mysterie that hath been hid from ages and generations, is revealed to the saints, which is, Christ in us the hope of glory, as our forefathers witnessed, read Col. I. 26, 27, 28, 29. Also, a testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come, who hath cast the law of God behind their backs, and hath trodden under foot the blood of the covenant. ... most especially, those that are called Anabaptists and Independents. Also, a few words in warning to the priests, professors, and people of the town and county of Southhampton. With a few quæries to the rulers and magistrates of England, to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth, ... . Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted, who are not wholly given up to believe lyes, that they may come to know the way of life and peace. Written by me who are called Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1475; Thomason E932_4; ESTC R22061	33,117	47

this end did he sow the good seed of the kingdom among us which the good ground hath received in us and Matth. 13. 8. hath brought forth first the Blade then the Ear then the full corn in the Ear to the everlasting praise and glory of him that sowed it so that the earth hath brought forth her increase by handfulls and abundance is gathered into the house of the Lord and God hath opened the Windows of Heaven and hath sent a blessing upon it that there is scarce Mall 3. 10. roome to hold it and he hath rebuked the devourer in hundreds according to his promise so that his children doth eat and drink with a discerning of his body and are become one bread and one body fitly joyned together unto Christ the head who is made unto them wisdome righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1 30 sanctification and redemption to the everlasting praise of his everlasting name for ever and ever And now is the Lord ariseing and arisen out of his holy Habitation and hath covered himselfe with Zeale as with Isa 59 7 a Cloake and for Zions sake hath he uttered his voice as a man of Warr whereby the tall Oakes hath been brought down and the Cedars of Lebanon hath been made to bend Ezek. 37 10 11 And he hath breathed upon the slain that they have stood up upon their feet and are become the whole house of Israel Isa 28 17 and for Zions sake hath he laid Judgement to the line and righteousnesse to the plummet and is sweeping a way the refuge of lyes so that there shall be no hideing place found in Heaven or in earth but his own righteousnesse which whosoever is found out of in the day of Gods fierce wrath shall be swept a way with the Beesom of destruction into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever where there is no redemption And therefore awake avvake all you carnal minded ones of what Sect or Faction soever you be of The everlasting day is come and dawned upon us which you hate vvhich hath discovered you to be out of Gods righteousnesse in the deeds of darkness following the Imaginations of your evil hearts whereby the seed of God is oppressed as a Cart is pressed with Amos 2 13 Sheaves and over you death hath great dominion and darknesse hath great power the way of peace you know not nor never can in that state therefore open your eyes Rev 22. 16 and behold the bright and morning Star that ariseth out of the East which is over-shadowing the whole earth that every mans work is now made manifest of what sort it is and no longer shall your deeds be hid for all things are naked and bare before him with whom we have to do Heb 4 13 1 Cor. 4 5 and he will suddenly bring to light the hidden things of darknesse so that every one shall appear as he is in truth and righteousnesse or in deceit and unrighteousnesse and all vailes will he rent and all covers will he rip off that his own flock only vvho are covered with his spirit of Isa 30. 1 life and power may be hid in the day of his fierce wrath which will come upon all mankind Awake awake all you who hath long lain upon your beds of ease and carnal security and hath eaten with the Gluttons Amos 6 3 4 5 Matt 24. 49. and drunken with the Drunkards and is now beating with the Fist of wickednesse and with a slanderous tongue backbiteing the innocent behold your Master is come hath found you asleep He stands now at the door and knocks and is desiring of you to awake and arise Ephe 5. 14. out of the filthy pollutions of the world that you are overwhelmed in that he may give you the light of life to follow him into the Land of the living where many now doth praise and magnifie his great Name for evermore who hath done marvellous things for them who are his Matt. 21. 42. flock who follows him whethersoever he goes unto whom He is a Priest a Prophet a King Awake awake all you filthy Dreamers who are in the defilements of the flesh and who hath made people brutish Ier. 27 9. Iude 8 by your false Dreams which you have called the word of God which hath been but a Divination of your own brain and hath not profited the people at all but their hungry souls is yet languishing after the bread of life you have fed your selves with the fatt till your flesh is become Ezek. 34. 3. Ezek. 23. 20. as the flesh of Horses your eyes stand out with fatnesse your words is as smooth as butter but in your heart doth the ravening Wolfe lye hid from the eyes of many as your fruits doth daily manifest the Lord will now feed Ezek. 34. 16. you with Judgement and make you drink the dreggs of the Cup of his sury powred out without mixture for you have caused many to erre by your lyes and lightness and none have you brought into the knowledge of the truth because you have departed from it your selves you have long ruled in this long night of Apostacy wherein the blind have walked which you have led who have Inter s●cos regnat strabus called you ministers of Christ and prophets of God And of such have you made a grievous prey and hath taken their money for that which was not bread but the Lord hath shaked his hand at your dishonest gain and hath caused Ezek. 22. 13. his everlasting day to spring upon his children which he hath appointed to gather from your mouths that they Ezek. 34. 22. 28. shall no longer be made a prey upon by you therefore be awakened and consider your state and condition in which you now stand if you be not wholly given up to make Merchandize of peoples souls through covetousnesse which is Idolatry for God will now no longer be mocked 2 Peter 2. 3. such as you sow such shall you reap your Vineyards are very unclean Bryers Thorns Weeds and Heb. 6. 8. Thistles grows up abundantly insteed of tender Vines you are sleepy and sloathful Vine-dressers you may blush to look into your Vineyards if you were not wholly given up to hardnesse of heart The day of the Lord will come upon you as a thief in the night wherein the Lord will 1 Thess 5. 2. require his sheep at your hands and then shall the book be opened wherein is written all your covetous practices Rev. 20. 12. and ungodly deeds and out of it shall you be judged accordingly and then shall you howle for pain of heart and weep for griefe of spirit when you consider how miserably you have deceived deluded many poore souls and how you have scattered the Lords flock upon the barren Mountaines which the Lord will surely require at your Ezek. 34. 10. hands behold now the time

think may reach to Heaven whereby to get you a Name and exalt your selves in the sight of men and a name you have gotten of Lambs and Sheep but the nature of Dogs and Swine is found ruling in you as is too too evidently your Rev. 3. 1. actions and fruits I know you wil call this railing but it is the Words of sound Doctrine unto you which you can scarce endure you have been so long daubed with untempered Morter and flattered in your iniquity but now will 2 Tim. 4. 3. the Lord rip off all your false covers and your folly shall be made manifest unto all men as theirs was who withstood 2 Tim. 3. 8 9 the truth in former ages I did think to cover your iniquity from the eyes of the World but now I see the Lord will not have it so but your shame and confusion must now be laid open unto all that others may hear and fear and take warning and that you may be left without excuse and your blood be upon your own heads in the day of the Lords fierce indignation which shall come upon you as a thief in the night except you with speed repent and turn to the Lord with all your hearts and with all your souls and put on Sackcloth and sit down in the dust for the jealousie of the Lord is kindled against you and all your prayers are an abomination to him for you regard iniquity and envy in your hearts and works it with your hands Is now the Weapon of your Warfare become a Magistrates Sword Wil not your Ministry stand without imprisoning and persecuting the innocent Had ever the Churches of Christ such a VVeapon as you can read of VVhat will be the end of these things Consider betime if you be not wholly given up to a reprobate mind In true and tender love to your poor souls I speak warn you again as I have often done who have most unjustly suffer'd by you both in false words and unjust actions as I shal make appear to publike view You have cast many false and abominable aspersions upon us who are by you in scorn called Quakers and most especially upon me who am onely known to you by the Name of Ambrose Rigge yea many things have you laid to my charge which I never knew nor acted for which the Lord wil you judge which thing you never made good to this day nor never can And this have you possest ignorant people with That we are Witches and Deluders and doth deny Christ and the Scriptures and many other filthy things which is not fit to be named but to be thrown into the bottomless pit from whence they came And this have you possessed the minds of many with for which the Lord will reward you into your own bosoms but of all your false Accusations are we clear in the presence of the Lord for Christ and the Scriptures we own and witness else we should not see your deceit and hypocrisie which is covered in you with the Name of Religion and if we did not own him in us the hope of glory we needed not suffer by Col. 1. 26 27. you and all the World so much reviling and slandering and be hated with a deadly hatred as we are daylie by you but at this we marvel not for we know it was our Masters portion before of the same generation as we have a cloud of Witnesses recorded in the Scripture of truth was written for our admonition and learning as our forefathers were moved of the Holy Ghost took in hand to set forth in order a declaration of the sufferer of the persecutor that we might have a Witnesse for one and against the other which we prize greatly at this day seeing that both parts is now to be fulfilled as your eyes have seen and our ears have heard And thus hath the third ground appeared worse then both the former wherein you are found who are called Independents for you are weighed in the Ballance of the 1 Sam 2. 3. Sanctuary and are found wanting therefore wo unto you if ye do not repent for the Spirit of the Lord will not alwaies Gen. 6. 3. strive with you nor his Messengers will not alwaies be sent to warn you to turn unto him but the time shall suddenly come upon you that you shall seek the Word of the Lord from Sea to Sea and shall not find it if you still Amos 8 11 12. go on in hard heartedness and rebellion and despise the day of your visitation And now Nathaniel Robbinson I shall lay open some of thy fruits to publike view that all who feare God and keep his commandments may be ashamed of thee And this I shall declare for the simple sake that they may know thee by thy fruits according to the words of Christ Matt. Matt. 7. 15 16. 7. 20. and that all who loves their souls may no longer be deceived by thee nor hold thee up lest they partake with thee of thy plagues Upon the first day of the Week I who am called of the World by the Name of Ambrose Rigge was moved of the Lord to come into the Idols-Temple where thou was speaking a divination of thy own brain where I stood peaceably till thou had made an end as many may witnesse and then I spoke to thee the words of truth in soberness but thou fled out at a back-door as the false hirelings ever did Joh. 10. 13. and then those that was present in hearing thee fell upon me like so many Wolves and Lyons that it was the great love and mercy of the Lord that I saved my blood and they haled me out of thy Synagogue into the Street where I was speaking the Words of truth with boldnesse till one of thy Hearers by name William Pinhorne and Nathaniel Knight one of thy members came and laid violent hands on me and haled me violently along the Streets to the Majors House where they kept me prisoner till the Major came home and then accused me falsly to the Major so they sent me to prison where I did remain till the second daie and then was brought before the said Major and Justices of the Town and Countie of Southampton where did appear none to lay any thing to my charge worthie of bonds Then came in Nathaniel Robbinson as a Judge in his own cause and told the Magistrates he would prove me a Hireling and when I put him to prove it he quoted that place of Scripture in Luk. 10. 3 4 5 6 7. where Christ said unto his Disciples when he sent them forth without bag or scrip or two Coats and commanded them to eat and drink such things as was set before them for the Labourer is worthie of his hire but when I put him to prove by the Scripture where ever Christ commanded his Ministers to go into such a City and there have a set-place and a Steeple-house

Saints vvords as you can or doth vvhile Matt 7 13. Iohn 8. 44. they themselves are of their father the Devil as the Jevvs vvas vvhose vvorks they did in persecuting his Servants and stoneing him and are not you doing the same let the faithful Prophets of the Lord once speak and lend your Deut. 18. 15. eares a little unto him vvho vvill not flatter nor lye nor daube vvith untempred morter for novv hath the Lord raised him according to his promise vvho speaks vvith authority Iohn 1. 45. Iohn 7. 37. 38. and ministers to the spirit in prison and all that vvill not harken unto him shall be cut off the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall be accomplished and Acts 3. 22. unto him shall Kings bovv and cast dovvn their Crovvnes Who vvill rule the Nations vvith a rod of Iron and dash them to peices as a Potters Vessel and novv vvoe Isa 28 1. unto the Crovvne of pride that must be brought dovvn and laid in the dust And you that bear it the Lord vvill scatter in your Imaginations in vvhat form or profession Prov. 1. 5. so ever you bee though you be gathered together and hand joyn in hand yet the vvicked shall not go unpunished Matt. 3 8 10. novv this is sad nevves to you that are found vvithout the Camp of the Lord for it is novv fruits that he is now looking for and righteousnesse that his soule delights in and the heart that he requires therefore hear this ye Prov. 23. 16. professors of what sort soever who are out of the life and power of God unto which every soule is to be subject Rom. 13. 1. unto this power you are not brought nor a subjection to it you do not know but are under the power Ephe. 2. 2. of the Prince of the ayre which rules in you whereby some of you are led into pride others into enmity others into abominable lyeing and false accuseing the Innocent without a cause now I know he who hath led you into these things will not let you confesse it nor own that Ezek. 23. 45. Dan 7. ●2 1. Cor. 6. 2. i Cor 2. 16. which condemns you secretly for it but will bring Scripture for his own ends as he did to Christ and say I should not judge but I say the righteous loveth judgement but the wicked cannot stand in it and the Saints shall judge the world and the Spiritual man judgeth all things and he himselfe is udged of no man and your actions is to be condemned with the light and troden upon as dirt in the streets with them who are in the power of God Oh how the seed of God is oppressed amongst you that even the cry thereof hath entered into the ear of the Lord of Sabbaths vvho is novv risen to avenge his ovvn cause and to plead vvith you who are in the flesh and are not only enemies to the seed of God in your selvs but your rage abundantly apperrs towards any in whom it doth arise to rule and guide them in the vvay that is called holy your abominations are increased and your transgressions cannot be numbred the Lord is weary vvith your sacrifices they are an abomination unto him for no sooner have you done that you call your sacrifice Isa 1. 12 13 14 15. Prov. 15. 8. if there be any in whom the seed of God is brought forth that are sent of him ro declare against your abominations before they can be suffered to speak the words of truth in sobernesse you like doggs and swine Wolves and Lions Mat. 23. 34 35 do fall upon the Lambs of Christ who wrongeth no man neither can you lay any thing justly to their charge and pulls and hails them out of your Assemblies even ready to Luk. 19. 3. take their bloud as Cain did and casts into prison such without any cause at all are these a Company of sheep or of doggs and Swine yea or nay And is not this Cains way Gen. 4. 5. that you are found in and is your sacrifice more accepted of the Lord then his was why are you so wroth envious they that learn of Christ are meek when they are smitten smites not again or doe you ever read that any of them ha●led out of their Assemblies or persecuted or imprisonned any What administration do you live under Answer in plainness if you say you are Christians shew where such actions were acted among Christians if not confess it openly and doe not play the Hypocrite Read and see if your eies be not wholly blinded by the God of the World whom Yee worship and serve who was an accuser of the brethren from the beginning and an envious man Is not all out of order amongst you your children wild and rude in the evil communication which corrupts the good manners 1 Cor. 15. 33. brought up out of the fear of God like wilde Colts mocking scoffing stoneing deriding and scorning Ephes 6. 4. the Servants of the Lord in your Streets so that those that neither doth nor speaketh any thing to you that is evil are daily by you abused both by words and actions as they pass peaceably along the Streets are not you that are Parents Titus 2. 2 3. or Masters to such ashamed of such things or doe you not delight in such things your selves and incourage your children and servants in it What doe you think will be the end of these things doe you not think the Lord scornes the scornfull or what is it your malice is so much against And again is not your young men and maids uncivill blaspheming the name of the Lord daily following youthful Titus 2. 4. 5 6. Psal 119. 9. pleasures living wantonly upon the earth scoffing and scorning them that cannot partake with them in their filthy pleasures which will be bitter in the end and are they not inventing how to make themselves glorious in the sight of the World not remembring their Creator in the Eccl. 12. 1. daies of their youth but following after pride and vanity which corrupts youth and leads out of the Moderation which they who fear the Lord are in and are adorned with a meek and quiet spirit which is of great price in the sight of God And doth not your Women array themselves in costly apparell in gold and pearle contrary to the Apostles 1 Tim. 2. 9. 10. 1 Pet 3. 2 3 4. command and doe not they goe in hoods and vailes scarfes and rings and changable Suits of Apparell and walking with stretched out necks and wanton eies making Isa 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. a mincing as they goe and a tinkling with their feet and their broadered hair that they can scarce tell how to goe they are so proud and puft up in the lust of the Flesh even such if not worse as the Lord sent his plagues and

THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGN OF RIGHTEOVSNESS Spread over his people in these later dayes Wherein the true light shineth and the mysterie that hath been hid from Ages and Generations is revealed to the Saints which is Christ in us the hope of glory as our forefathers witnessed Read Col. 1. 26 27 28 29. ALSO A Testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the world to come who hath cast the Law of God behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now doth labour with one shoulder to destroy the Man-child which is now brought forth to rule the Nations with an Iron Rod and these are most especially those that are called Anabaptists and Independents Also A few Words in warning to the Priests Professors and People of the Town and County of Southampton With a few Quaeries to the Rulers and Magistrates of England to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian Magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth or according to the heathenish Kings and Rulers in former Ages Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted who are not wholly given up to believe lyes that they may come to know the way of life and peace Written by me who am called Ambrose Rigge London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. To the sober Reader GReat and admirable is the Love and Mercy of the Lord God unto the sons of men that he hath not with-held his onely Son but hath sent him a Light into the world that all men through him might believe and be saved But there is a generation of men in these our dayes that cannot endure sound Doctrine and such will not receive him who is the good shepherd but heaps unto themselves Teachers having itching ears which hath never profited them nor never shall and the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stands now where it ought not therefore I desire thee who readeth these ensuing lines to understand and weigh them in an equal Ballance and with a single eye look upon them and thou wilt clearly see that here is nothing written but what is just and true to every mans condition without flattering or daubing with untempered Morter as the false Prophets have done these many years which hath made the abomination so great in our Nation of ENGLAND And take heed of judging or censuring any thing hastily but try all things as he hath done who writ this unto thee and hold fast that which is good For to this end was this sent forth to publike view That every one may be knowne by their fruits From him who is a Friend to all that love the Truth as it is in JESUS called of men Ambrose Rigge THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGNE OF RIGHTEOVSNESS c. FOrasmuch as many dear and precious Isa 8. 18. Joh. 17. 23. Servants and Children of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom he hath loved with an everlasting love and hath opened their eyes and ears to behold him whom they had pierced and hath armed them with Zach. 12. 10. power from on High to make war in righteousness against all the powers Rev. 20. 8 9. of darkness that stands up against the appearance of the Lamb of God who hath now cloathed them with his Armor of Light and Life and given them for an Helmet the Hope Rom. i3 12. Eph. 6. 13 17. of Salvation and hath put the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God into their mouths that with boldness they may declare abroad the Name of him who is now come a Light into the World and hath lighted every man that Joh. 12. 46. Joh. 17. 9. cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and come to the knowledge of the truth And for this end is he now made manifest To destroy the 1 Joh. 3. 8. Eccles 12. 3 Ezek. 32. 25 26 Ezek. 2i 28. Works that the devil hath wrought in man even to make the strong man bow before him and the Keepers of the House to tremble that the uncircumcised may fall by the stroke of his Sword which is now drawn in his hand and made ready for a mighty slaughter even to cut off the wicked from the Land of the living that their remembrance may Luk. i9 27 be blotted out from the earth which wlil not that he shall rule whose right it is and he hath made his children and servants living Witnesses of his eternal Truth to declare his eternal Name among the Gentiles and hath given them a 1 Joh. 5 20 Luk. 22 35 good understanding to know him that is true and hath sent them forth into the VVorld vvithout Bag or Scrip or tvvo Coats and hath given them his Word of Life and Light to declare to the Spirit in Prison and these have as they have been moved of the Lord run to and fro in the earth in true and tender love to peoples souls vvarning all men every Acts 17 30 31. Acts 20 33 vvhere to repent and seek the Lord vvhile he may be found vvithout coveting any mans Silver Gold or Apparel and for this have they been stocked stoned vvhipped imprisoned and shamefully intreated and not counted vvorthy to live upon the earth not onely by them that professed little or nothing of God Christ or the Scriptures but rather by the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests and zealous professors Mark 8 31 as the Jevvs vvas as may be vvitnessed at this day by hundreds in our Nation of England vvhose fruits shame their Profession and vvhose Works shevv to their faces they are of their Father the Devil And those vvhom the Lord Joh. 8 44 1 Cor. 4 2 hath called and chosen to commit his secrets unto and to place his eternal Name in as they have freely received of the Lord freely have they ministred unto all whereby many hath been turned from darknesse unto light and from the Matth. i0 8. Acts 26. 18. power of Satan unto God and God hath greatly blessed their labours within these few years so that many that was scattered as Sheep without a Shepherd in the cloudy and dark day by the Idol dumb Sepherds which had made a prey Ezek. 34 12. upon them their feet are now directed into the Way of life and peace wherein they are now walking up to Zion with Songs of Deliverance and are sitting down with Abraham Isa 35 10 Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness where Matth. 8 11 is weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever And now quick and powerful hath the Word of the Lord Heb. 4 12 been in the mouth of his Messengers and Ministers in

their own eyes and they separated themselves in the outward from other men in Worship but it was self that separated them which was never yet denyed nor separated from by them as doth fully appear at this day in their whole course of life the Seed of the Kingdom was sown among them but they receiving Mark 4. 7. it into the thornie ground it was choaked ere it grew up with the cares of the World and deceitfulness of riches and abominable pride envy and wrath as Nathaniel Robbinson one of their great Sect-Masters of the Town and County of Southampton may bear me witness if his heart be not totally hardneed and he be given up to work all manner of wickedness with greediness and his conscience be seared with a hot Iron Wofully hath these sort of people betrayed their trust their latter end will be worse by double then was their beginning highly are they now exalted upon the Mountains of pride and deeply are they obliged in the bond of iniquity their Sacrifices are now an abomination to the Lord who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity they have departed from the counsel of the Lord have greatly erred into the Way of Cain as will hereafter plainly Jude 11. appear in Nathaniel Robbinson and many of his Hearers 2 Tim. 3. 4. 2 3 4 5 6 7. in the Town of Hampton who are now become brutish and without natural affection incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good and not onely so but hath a great thirst after their blood without any just cause as hath manifestly appeared both in words and actions not long since all this they cover under a cover of profession and a feigned humility which is seen with the children of light to be double hypocrisie And a covering of a most curious colour Matth. 7. 15 16. have they put on to hide this ravening Wolf but now it is too narrow the ravenous Beast breaks forth in great rage and fury and musters up all his Forces against the Lambs appearance who is now come to torment him before his time And now doth he cast out floods of railings revilings lyes slanders false accusations after the Woman in whom the man-child is moving and this is because his sacrifice is not accepted But oh Cain why art thou wrath and why is thy countenance fallen Why doth thou so rage and swell foame and torment thy self and envy thy Brother If thou dost well thou shall be accepted if not sin lyeth at thy door Thou hast forgotten that Gen 4. 5 6. thou should first be reconciled to thy Brother before thou offer thy gift and this is the main reason why it is not accepted at thy hand which makes thee so envious and wrathful that even nothing will quench thy thirsty stomack but thy Brothers blood which daylie appears to all that are not wilfully blind by thy eager pursuance after it and threatning them that will not to the utmost answer thy cursed desires in persecuting the innocent Oh how art thou postng on in the Way of Cain the Murtherer Jude 11. and treading in the steps of thy Father Balaam Oh thou Nathaniel Robbinson Oh how is the right Wayes of the Lord evil spoken of and reviled daylie by thee and by thy seduced followers who makes lyes your refuge and mischief your dwelling place which is hatched in your deceitful Breasts Wil your high talking of God and Christ cover all this Or are you so given up to believe a lye as to believe it will There is an eye opened that sees you which you see not and a Judge that weighs your actions which you know not but when the Book of every one of your consciences shall be opened then out of that shall you all be judged without respect of persons and receive according to your deeds done in the body In that day shall not your crying Lord Lord and preaching in the Name of Christ in your Synagogues rescue you from that dreadful sentence Depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know you not for I was an hungry Matt. 7. 23. Matth. 25. 41 42 43 44. By Name VVilliam Pinhorn and ye fed me not I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink a stranger and ye took me not in but went with abominable lyes and false reports to the Magistrates to persecute me as a Wanderer and a Deluder and when they would not imprison me you caused them to do it and when there was no Witness against me you came in false Eliz. Horsent said it was a matter of conscience not to visit her Sister in Prison Witnesses your selves whereby to seek my ruine and destruction and when I was in prison some of you said it was a matter of conscience not to visite me and said it was just upon me All this and more have you acted and spoken against me because you neither knew the Father nor me for in as much as you have done this to one of the least Matth. 25. 45 46. Matth. 18. 6. that believe in me you have done it to me And therefore now wo unto you good had it been for you that a Milstone had been hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of the Sea then to have offended one of them that believe in me Oh Matth. 23. 37 38. how often would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings and ye would not but hated persecuted and shamefully intreated my servants and messengers that I sent in tend or love unto you to warn you while you had a day and time to turn unto me from all your abominations But oh how have you hated reproof Prov. 1. 21. Isa 55. 9. and turned your ear from the cry of Wisdom and hath chosen your own wayes which is corrupt before me and as far from mine as the Heaven is from the earth Oh how will you answer this ye stiff-necked and rebellious people that have eyes and see not ears and hear not and hearts and doth not understand Will the Lord be mocked with your vain oblations which you bring before Isa 1. 13. him day by day when your hands is full of blood and your hearts is after your Idols You have set your Nests on Isa 30. 1. high and hath covered your selves with a covering but not with the Spirit of the Lord as is daylie apparent to all whose eyes the Lord hath opened highly are you seated upon the Mountains of pride and exaltation the Scribes and Pharisees did far exceed you in zeal who made clean the outside which you are far from but you say pride is in the heart which is true enough by your garments you are bad patterns before them you call Heathens which can see nothing but the outside yea many of them outstrips you in life and conversation and would be ashamed of your practise You have built you a Tower whose top you

judgments upon Read Isa 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. Therefore hear this all you that are found in this path the Lord will take away your bravery and instead thereof he will cover you with contempt and he will bring down the haughtiness of man and woman and will lay your honour Isa 2. 11 12 13 17. Isa 10. 33. in the dust and scatter you as chaff is scattered with the Wind because you have cast his righteous Law behind your backs and hath walked despightfully against the Spirit of Grace Who hath been warned like unto you hath not the Lord sent his Servants earlie and late to forewarn You of the Judgement that he hath intended against You because of Your manie transgressions whereby You daily provoke him to anger even to sweep You all awaie with the besome of destruction And have not You executed Your cruelty upon his messengers in mocking scoffing spitting upon hailing to prison Math 23. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39. them that have been sent in tender love unto your Souls to call You to Repentance and to seek the Lord while he may be found but You may say You doe not this to the servants of Christ but to Vagabonds and Wanderers Deluders and Deceivers and the Ringleaders of the Sect of the Quakers as You in scorn calls them which is every where spoken against and hailed out of the Synagogues and persecuted and cast into prison but all this while cannot see Your selves as blind as Your Forefathers the Persecutors was and as ignorant of God and his works as Cain the Vagabond was vvho vvas in Envie as you are though he builded the first Cittie to make bimself an habitation Gen. ● 12. God called him a Vagabond Gen. 4. 12. but he did not call his Son a Vagabond vvho had not vvhereon to lay his head nor his Son did not call them vvhich vvent about in Sheep skins and goat skins and had no certain Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38 39 40. dvvelling place he did not call such Vagabonds vvho had a habitation vvhere neither Cain nor any of his stock hath but you are the Vagabonds rightly named vvho are in envie and vvrath vvho hath great habitations in the earth as he had but are driven out from the presence of the Lord into pride and highmindedness and into the Earth and its pleasure and treasure laying up treasure there but are ignorant of the true treasure vvhich they have in earthen 2 Cor. 4. 7. vessels vvhich vvander up and dovvn and are made a prey upon by you vvho are in Cains vvay and in God hath not an habitation but are vvandering starres vvandering Isa 59. 15. up and dovvn in the Element of your imaginations out of one fashion and vanitie of the World into another and here are you scattered upon the mountains of Pride and high mindedness in the clouds of darkness and stops your eares at the true Shepheards voice vvho would gather you off from the barren mountains into the lovv vallies to feed among his Lambs and to drink of the fresh fountain of living Water but this You loath and vvill not hear of but loves to vvallovv vvith the Svvine in the filth and mire therefore vvill Your condemnation be just and the Lord vvill be clear of Your blood Again is not the harmless and innocent children of the Lord vvhom he hath placed his Name in and hath set as Phill. 2. i5 Witnesses against you as he did Lot in Sodom whom you have nothing justly to lay to their charge are not such by 1 Joh● 3. ●● you abused as Lot was scoffed and scorned at stoned in the Streets and spitted upon who cannot goe with you into the same excess of riot doe you think the Lord doth 1 Pet 4. 4. not take notice of this Yea surely one day ye shall know that it had been better for you that a milstone had been hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of John 15. 19. the sea then to offend one of the least of his who is the good Shepherd but because Judgement is not executed upon Math 18. 6. Eccl 8. 11. you speedily therefore are your hearts bent in you to doe wickedly but this know that there is a Witness in every one of your consciences that takes notice of all your waies and actings therefore once more I warn you from the Lord to repent and turn unto the Lord and put off your bravery of your tinkling ornaments and put on sackcloth and sit down in the dust if so be you may be hid in the day of the fierce indignation of the Lord and cease to doe evil and learn to doe well lest the overflowing scourge of the Lord sweep you all away for his sword is Isa i. 16 17. drawn and his bow bent and his arrowes are made very sharp and will fall grievously upon the head of the wicked Amos 5. 14 15 16. and how can you escape when he appears who will plead with you by his Sword and by Fire and will render to every man according to his works without Math. 16. 27. respect of persons and then shall you all know that you had warning in your life time by them which you hated and persecuted scoffed and scorned so while you have time prize it and sleight not the day of your Visitation nor the mercie of the Lord to your Souls least you be shut out among the Unbelievers into utter darkness where is weeping wailing Math. 8. 12. and gnashing of teeth for ever I charge you as you will answer it to the Lord search these Scriptures out which are quoted and read them in the fear of God and try your teachers and your fruits whether they be according to them which spoke forth Scriptures Yea or Nay for every tree is known by his fruits and so are the false prophets from the true Matth. 7 20. Written by me whom you greatly hate because I am sent to bear testimony against your abominations and by you am I called a Quaker but thorow the tender mercy of the Lord am I made partaker of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. and onely known to the world by the name of Ambrose Rigge ANd now Oh ye Rulers of the earth the word of the Lord is to you who hath gotten the Seat of Moses the Servant of the Lord you who are called Judges Justices or Head Officers of what kind or sort soever And doth pretend that you are Gods Ministers to lay the sword upon the transgressors and to be a praise unto them that doth well according as the Lord hath appointed his Ministers to be now if you profess the Scriptures to be your rule and the Christian Magistrates to be your example which is recorded in the Scriptures Let us now reason together in meekness and trie your fruits whether they be according to the Magistrates

is near accomplished that if you will not hear and lay it to heart to give glory unto the Lord that he will spread dung over your faces and Mal. 2. 2. will curse your blessings yea many of them he hath cursed already so that henceforth never fruit shall growe on you more but you shall suddenly wither away like the Fig-tree that bare leaves but no fruit because you have Matt. 21. 19. dispised the Law of God and hath followed after covetous 2 Pet. 2. 14. practices and are become cursed children who have forsaken the right way and hath run gredily after the errors of Balaam the son of Bosor whom Gods hand was heavily stretched out against and the same hand of the Lord is against you now who are found treading in the same steps Awake awake all you high notionists of what kind or sort soever who hath gotten the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles to talk of in your ayrie minds and thinks to have eternal life in them but hates the son of God in all Iohn 5. 39. his appearances and will not come unto him that you might have life the day is dawned and the sun is risen with his burning heat and hath scorched all your beauty so Ier. 17 6. that you are become as a parched Heath in the Drought of Summer all your glory is the Lord bringing into Isa 23. 9. contempt and your Wisdome hath he turned into foolishnesse because neither you nor it did stand in the fear of his name your preaching and long praying are but as the cutting off of a Doggs neck or offering Svvines blood Isa 66. 3. the Lord hath no regard to it because your hands is polluted and daily vvorks iniquity And as a Cage is full of birds so is your houses and hearts full of deceit your abominable Idols have you not yet cast to the moles and Isa 2. 20. to the Batts for the fear of the Lord for the glory of his majesty vvho is novv arisen to shake terribly the earth the Lord vvill not be mocked vvith your Hypocritical profession Gall. 6. 7. for the day is come vvherein every one of your works are made manifest but this you cannot endure to hear of who loves darknesse rather then light because Iohn 3. 19. your deeds are evil therefore be awakened be awakened now when the everlasting day is come and consider your state and measure your wayes by the unalterable rule of righteousnesse which is the light wherewith you are enlightned 2 Cor. 10. 13. 15. and it will let you see that you never yet knew the mistery of the Crosse of Christ which to the world doth crucifie all that comes to bear it but in the world and the vanityes therof are you yet wandering as sheep Gal. 6. 14. without a shepheard and never yet witnessed a true seperation to God with the light of his Son And now are you stumbling at the stumbling stone that is laid in Zion Isa 8. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 8. which is become a rock of offence to you who stumble at the word of faith which is nigh in the heart your high buildings shall be now laid besolate and not one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Awake awake all you covetous cruel oppressors who grinde the faces of the poore and by Cuzening Cheating Isa 3. 14. 15. and defrauding hath set your nests on high and are become great in the earth so that you joyn house to house and field to field till there be no place for the poore in the earth the day is come upon you that you Isa 5. 7. 8. shall be called to an account before the dreadful God of Heaven and earth who hath taken notice of all your wayes and actings and hath heard the cry of the poore and needy which you have greedily made a prey upon according as you could receive power from the beast whose Image you bear And therefore go to now ye rich men weepe and howle for the misery that is coming upon you for the rust of your silver and gold shall be a witnesse against Iames 5. 1. 2. 3. you the Lord is now bringing down the oppressors and setting the oppressed free which hath long cryed unto him your riches shall not deliver you in the day of Gods fierce vvrath Therefore novv incline your ears Pro. i1 4 Ezek 1● 6. and 18 30. unto the call of Wisdome and repent repent vvith speed and return unto the Lord with all your hearts and seek him while he may be found and hearken unto him while he calls upon you Why will ye dye in your iniquities Now have you all a day and a time see that you all prize it least Psal 52 5. you be cut off from the Land of the living and go down to the pit with the uncircumcised And now blessed be the everlasting Day for ever who hath visited us who sate in darkness and in the shadow of Luk. 1. 78 79. death hath broken forth in an acceptable time unto the sons of men after this long night of Apostacy wherein darkness hath been called light and the Way of the Lord hath not been known nor the true Prophet which Moses Act. 3. 22 23. wrote of hath not been heard but people hath been ever learning but were never able to come to the knowledge of the truth which many hath desired to know and receive 2 Tim 3 but could not in that state and by reason of darkness and blindness of mind have followed such Teachers as have been wholly Enemies to Jesus Christ and in every thing out of his Doctrine but yet covered themselves over with the sheeps clothing and through good words and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simple and Rom i6 18. made them believe that they were the only men that were gifted of God to minister a Word in season to the weary and to direct them that were gone astray into the Way of Ezek. 38. 16. God And so great was the Cloud of darkness over the whole earth and the covering was drawn so close over the ravening Wolf in them that he did not at all appear unto the children of men but they gave large sums of money unto them and thought by that to know the true way to eternal life and this kept the ravening Wolf from appearing or breaking forth so that as they did imagine all was well and at peace and they cryed peace peace unto Ezek. 13. 10. them that put into their mouths and daubed with untempered Morter so the Lord overturned them by his mighty power and then did he appear in a measure of the dispensation of his love unto a people that was called Puritans and he opened their eyes in a little measure that they saw the deceit and unrighteousness that both priest

to go into and have fifty pounds by the Year from the State which is his practice as many may witness such a command was not to be found thorowout the Scriptures Now let any that are guided by the Spirit of the living God judge whether of these are according to the command of Christ or agreeable to the Scriptures of truth and the practise of the holy men of God Then when the Magistrates could find no just occasion of evil against me whereby to suffer anyfurther imprisonment Nathaniel Robbinson came told them in my hearing they had best to bind me to my Good-behavior when no evil-behavior could justlie be laid to my charge And then they would have proceeded against me for mis-behavior but I pleaded my freedom according to their own Law That without the mouth of two or three Witnesses nothing is established or proved nor cannot legallie be prosecuted So upon that they concluded to send me to prison again which was done accordinglie Then on the next daie came Nathaniel Robbinson and another Priest to the Prison-door and asked me if they might have a little discourse with me to which I answered Yea So they went awaie and said they would come again by and by which they never did and so proved themselves to be of their Father the Devil who was a liar from the beginning and abode not in the truth Then I was sent for before the Magistrates again where was five false Witnesses prepared against me of which Nathaniel Knight was one but their testimonie did not agree together as it was with their forefathers recorded in the Scripture of truth Mar. 14. 56 to 59. Then the Magistrates being more sober then to prosecute from such false Witnesses they commanded their absence then they tendered me the Oath of Abjuration which I did then and shall for ever bear testimonie against both over my self in particular and over the whole Church of God in general So finding no just occasion against me of farther Bonds they set me free according to Law though it was much against the Wills of mine adversaries Then on the third daie of the seventh Month 1657. Ellin Embree went to the Steeple-house in Southampton called Roods and there stayed peaceablie until the Priest had ended both his Sermon and Prayer as he called it and when he had quite ended as she did believe she spake some few words to the people whereupon two of the Justices of the said Town presently commanded some Officers to lay hands upon her which they did and haled her in a rude manner through the Streets to prison without any Examination or Mittimus to the Officer or Keeper of the Prison to shew the cause of her imprisonment nor had the Keeper any Warrant for her detainment in prison where she remained until the Sessions which began the 17th of that Month and in the Evening of that day the Recorder Lisle sent one of the Town-Officers to bring her before the Court and calling for the Indictment laid against her it was answered There was none whereupon the Recorder taxed the Justices for having imprisoned her wrongfully and so word was sent presently back not to bring her to the Court but the next day there was a false Indictment framed contrary to the late Act by which she suffered for the words maliciously wilfully or of purpose according to the Act was quite left out of the Indictment and only the Word disturbance put in upon which Indictment the Jury proceeded and brought her in guilty of disturbance whereupon the Recorder Lisle gave sentence to lay a Fine of five pounds upon her to be paid at a Months time or to be sent to the House of Correction for six months to be set to hard labour be corrected according as they should think fit but the Prisoner replying she would never pay any they had her body there present they might do with her what they thought good so she asking whether she was free they bid her go home if she would which she did Now the Month being up the Mayor of the Town made out his Warrant to the Constables and Beedles to come to her house to demand the mony or to take her Body her Name being mistaken in the VVarrant there was nothing done only the payment of the Fine refused Then two days after being the 21. of the eighth month the Constable five or six Officers with Swords came with a second VVarrant from the Mayor to fetch her to Bridewell but she being in an inner Room in her house did forbear putting her self in their hands and so remains expecting what further course they will take against her Anne Horsent upon the 6th day of the 7th Month was moved of the Lord to go to a Steeplehouse in Hampton called All-Saints where Nathaniel Robbinsen spoke that day where she stood peaceably and spoke not a word until Robbinson was come down his Pulpit and out of the Meeting-place and when he was fled she spoke some few words to the people and so went home again But the next day this Robbinson sent to the Church-VVardens as they are called telling them he had been affronted and if they did not execute their Office he would complain against them Take notice of that thou that reads with a single eye And he also went to the Mayor of the Town with a false Information against her the said Anne whereupon the Mayor sent his Officers to apprehend her where she was to visit the said Ellin Embree in prison and there they also detained her in prison until the Sessiont full 12. dayes and was likewise imprisoned without Examination or any Accusers heard and was proceeded against in the same manner and upon the said dayes and VVarrant as the said Ellin Embree although it did not appear by any proofs in the Court that she the said Anne had disturbed the said Robbinson in the time of his officiating nor yet in going to it or returning from it as many can witnesse nor can Robbinson say that he heard any one vvord that she said in the Meeting-place but was got home or very near before she spake yet judgement was given against her at the Sessions either to pay five pounds or to be sent to the House of Correction to be set at hard labour and be corrected as they should think fit though it could not truly be brought in that she had broke any Law Note That the Justices of the Town when they were in prison did give order to the Keeper of the Prison that none should visite them but their near Relations Therefore I desire all sober people in this Nation that fears the Lord to weigh and consider these things whether ever such a Ministry as this was ever ordained of God yea or nay that will not stand without imprisoning and persecuting the innocent for saying not a word but for standing peaceably among the rest looking upon him What do you think is in this mans

heart if he could but get the Rulers and Scribes to join with him in cruelty Would not the Jesuit Priests in Queen Mary's dayes been ashamed to have acted such things against any that came to speak to them Oh Nathaniel Robbinson cannot thou even blush to hear of this Is thy heart so hardened that thou glories in that which one day will be thy shame What will be the end of these things Consider betime left he that thou so much strives against break thee to pieces and thou be cast out into utter darkness where is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth for ever THere dyed of late one John Behaute in the Town and County of Southampton who was another of the Independent Teachers as this Nathaniel Robbinson aforementioned who did upon his death-bed declare that this Robbinson was the cause of his death to Robbinsons face but did forgive him and bid him do so no more Now if they be so envious one to another as be the cause of one anothers death what may any judge they would do with us if they had power given them from above If this be not Cain's way that Robbinson is in let all who feares the Lord judge Gen. 4. 8. Jude 11. And now a few words in warning to the Priests Professors and people of the Town and County of Southampton VVOE Woe unto you the Inhabitants of Southampton Priests Professors and People who hate the light wherewith Christ Jesus the light of the world hath Iohn 3. 19 20 21. Psalm 73 18. Iohn 2. 8 9. 1 Iohn 1. 5. lighted you withall your deeds are evil and your wayes are crooked and perverse even the slippery wayes of darknesse your building must be thrown down and not one stone left upon another your Image must be dashed to peices which you have set up unto which you would Dan. 3. 23. 1 Pet. 2. 6 7 8. have the true seed to bow with the little stone cut out of the Mountains without hand at which you stumble which is become a rock of offence unto you who at the word of life stumbles and yet professeth the letter as your fore-fathers did but as far if not further from owning Rom. 9. 33. the life as they were even stoping your ears at the voice of the true Prophet and cannot endure sound Doctrine 2 Tim. 1. 3. 4. Isa 48. 22. but saith unto the Prophets Prophesy smooth things unto us and speake unto us peace though the witnesse of God the true Prophet in your consciences saith there is no peace to you for you live in the lust of the eye and in Ezek. 10. 49. the lust of the flesh and in the pride of life eating and drinking and riseing up to play even like your Sister Sodom whom God overthrew And doth not thy Prophets in the midst of thee hearken to this and cry peace peace where the Lord hath not spoken peace and daube with untempred morter so that none is able to turn from the Ier. 6. 13 14 15. evil of their doings but all your daubing is accounted as Potters clay for within are you ful of rottennesse and deceit Ezek. 13 10 i1 12 13 14 15. pride and ambition envy and hatred prisoning and persecuting the Innocent which are all fruits of that Matt. 23 27 28. Matt 7. 19 20. Heb. 6. 8. tree which hath no promise but to be hewn down and cast into the fire long hath the Lord looked for fruits of you but nothing is brought forth but Bryers and Thornes for your profession and Ministry will not stand without renting and tearing pulling and hailing out of your Synagogues persecuting and drawing the Innocent before your Iudgement seates false accuseing and backbiteing 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lyeing and slandering these are the fruits that is brought forth a mongst you of which I am an eye and eare witnesse and this was not declared against by thee Nathaniell Robinson who professes thy selfe to be a teacher of others but thou thy selfe is not yet taught to deny nor to declare against such things but doth cry out and complain it is not severe enough Now are you like Priest like people all are Ier. 23. i1 Hosea 4. 9. prophaine yea your wickednesse is now found out and your wayes traced with the eternal light of the Son of God which you hate and scof at now doth your inside appear the sheeps covering will no longer hide the ravening Wolfe but he breaks forth in great rage and fury even Matt. 7. 15 16 17. ready to devour the Lambs of Christ which walks Innocently before you who are inwardly ravening Wolves as your fruits makes you manifest by which you are known Ezek. 34. i0 as Christ Jesus the light of the world hath foretold which is now seen and fulfilled glory be unto his eternal name for ever that your good words and fair speeches will no longer hide you but the children of light sees you to be in the same steps of them the Prophets Christ and the Apostles was sent to cry against which use your tongues Matt. 23. Ier 23. 30 3i and say thus saith the Lord when in the mean while you are persecuting his Servants and slaying his Son though Matt. 7 21. you make a large profession of him and call him Lord and Master but doth not the things which he commands but the things which his soule loathes And thou Nathaniell Robinson look upon thy congregation yea them which thou calls church members which thou hast sowne unto and see if there be any thing to be reaped amongst them but corruption pride lust lightnesse wantonnesse envying strife and debate the most vaine fashions and customes of the world which is to fade as the flower And is not thy Vineyard full of this can thou look upon them and not confesse thou art a shamelesse Vinedresser that can walk in this Vineyard without blushing thy plants doth send forth an evil smell into the nostrils of the Lord Is not thy preaching vaine and their faith vaine and thy people yet in their sins and pleading for them for term of life but if thou had stood Ier. 23. 22. in the councell of the Lord and caused his people to have heard his word then they should have been turned from these abominations which both thou and they are in and pleading for and persecuting such who testifies against them and dare thou say that thou hast brought them to witnesse the first Principle of religion or thinkest thou Acts 26. 18. 1 Cor. 4 20. the kingdome of Heaven stands in words or the way to it is the way of uncleannesse Pride Envy c. And whether thou and the rest be not in such wayes of darknesse Isa 35. 8 9 10 aforementioned yea or nay if this be the vvay it is very broade and many may go in thereat and yet may profess as much of the

see whether doth over-ballance So these are left as Queries to be answered by any of you 1. VVHether Pharoah King of Aegypt who oppressed the children of God might not have pleaded as well as you That they were to be subject to his command and bow down to his power yea or nay who said Come let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and grow stronger then we that when there fall out any war they become our enemies and fight against us and he used cruel rigor unto them and laid great burthens upon them as you may read Exod. the first chap. Now whether or no is not this your Wisdom now To use all your power and strength to oppress the people of God now by cruel bondage and rigor and when your power is not strong enough doth join together and take counsel to make cruel Laws against them whereby to bring them into bondage and make them serve you as Bond-slaves which you cannot read that Pharoah did So whether your cruelty doth not exceed his yea or nay let that in all your consciences judge 2. Whether this power that Pharoah ruled in was the power of God yea or nay If yea Why did the Lord with an high hand and an outstretched arm deliver his children from him and his power and overthrow him and his Chariots and Horsemen in the midst of the Sea as you may read Exod. 14. 23 24 25 26 27 28. If nay Whether your power be not the same now in oppressing the innocent children of God now whom he hath appointed to offer a sacrifice to him in righteousness And whether ever any that stood in the power of God and was guided by the Spirit of God was ever persecutors yea or nay 3. Where did ever Pharoah King of Aegypt fine or imprison any of the people of the Lord for such a small thing as not for putting off their Hats as many of you have done Or whether he did oppress the people of God so many waies as you have done within these late Years yea or nay 4. Where did ever Moses who was a true and faithful Judge over all Israel fine or imprison any that came before him for not putting off their Hats Shew one example either among the Christian Magistrates throughout the Scriptures or among the Heathenish Rulers in former ages and if you cannot find one example among either of them then confess your selves to be grown higher in pride and ambition then the persecutors in former ages 5 VVhether there be anie transgression where there is no Law If you say Yea shew how or wherein If Nay then whether do not you persecute and imprison them that are no transgressors for not putting off their Hats when there is neither Law of God nor man that commands it 6. VVhere did Balaak King of the Moabites whose enmitie was against the people of God whom God had delivered from under the hand of Pharoah as you may read Numb 22. 4 5 6. yet shew where he persecuted or imprisoned so many of them as you have done of the children of the Lord who are in derision called Quakers in the Nation of England without any justcause and whether the power was not in him to do it aswell as you yea or nay 7. VVhether Haman who was full of wrath when Mordecai could not bow unto him as others did was in the power of God or in the pride of his heart who made a Gallows to hang Mordecai on because he crossed his lust as you may read Esth 5. Now whether you who are full of rage and fury when the people of God cannot bow down to your pride and lust be not in the same steps yea or nay Therefore consider what was the end of Haman read Esth 7. 9 10. 8. VVhether Nebuchadnezzar who was a heathenish King stood in the power of God when he commanded to bind he three children of God and cast them into the fiery Fornace because they could not bow to his will as you may read Dan. 3. the whole chapter Now you that say all power is of God and therefore ought to be obeyed whether did Shadrak Meshek and Abednego well in resisting this power and choosing rather to suffer under it then obey it yea or nay as you may see Dan. 3. 16 17 18. So you who commands the people of God to bow unto that which in conscience to the Lord they cannot are not you full of rage and fury and commands them to be cast into prison without Bail or Mainprise and makes their affliction seven-fold worse then it used to be to others who were offenders So what this Power and command differs from Nebuchadnezzars let that in all your consciences judge 9. VVhether Darius the King stood in the power of God when he commanded Daniel to be cast into the Den of Lyons for praying to the true God as you may read Dan. 6. 16. If you say Yea VVhether did Daniel well yea or nay in not regarding the King nor the Decree that he had signed Dan. 6. 13. If Nay VVhether you stand not in the same power now who casts into Dens and Holes the children of the Lord whose prayers he hears because they cannot bow down to any but to the command of God yea or nay 10. VVhether Herod who imprisoned Peter the servant of God was in the power of God yea or nay as you may read Act. 12. 3. 4. If you say Yea then why did God send his Angel and deliver Peter from him and smite Herod that he was eaten with VVorms as you may read A●● 12. 7 8 23. If you say Nay Then all power is not of God by your own confession but the Devil keeps many under his power to act his will upon the children and servants of God 11. VVhether King Agrippa or Festus or Foelix who had as much power to execute their wills upon the servants of God as you have now yet shew wherein they acted half so much rigor upon the servants of Christ as many of you have acted Therefore now consider your state and weigh your actions and fruits and in this your day I warn you all high and low to mind the things that belongs to your peace before they be hid from your eyes and you be shut up in utter darkness for the Spirit of the Lord will not alwaies strive vvith you as it hath done Therefore be wise now ye Kings and be instructed ye Judges and Rulers of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice before him with trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish from the way for if his VVrath be kindled a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him And cease persecuting the inocent vvho neither vvrongeth you nor any man and consider the end of the persecutors in former ages Pharoah the oppressor of Gods people vvas drovvned in the depth of the Sea as you may see Exod. 14. 27 28. Haman vvas hanged on the Gallovvs that he prepared for Mordecai read Esth 7 9 10. Nebuchadnezzar his Kingdom vvas rent from him and his dvvelling vvas vvith the Beasts of the field and did eat grasse as the Oxen Read Dan. 4. 32 33. Darius was made to repent and confess to the truth That it vvas the true God that Daniel served vvhom he persecuted as you may read Dan. 6. 26 27. Herod vvas eaten vvith VVorms vvho prisoned and persecuted the servants of God as you may read Acts 12. 23. These things I vvrite unto you that you may see the just judgements of the Lord upon the persecutors of his in former ages not that I desire in the least such things to come upon you but that vvhile you have time to prise it and return to the Lord if so be you may be hid in the day of his fierce vvrath So thus far am I clear of all your blood vvho am knovvn in England by the Name of Ambrose Rigge FINIS